Avis Metacritic

Offers the pleasures of a chamber drama's bravura performances from a pair of supremely accomplished pros.

Hackman and Freeman will pin you to your seat.

Ninety percent of this thriller is absolutely terrific; but the 10 percent that fails is so troubling that it threatens to undermine all that is wonderful in the rest.

An engrossing, gem-hard little popcorn-cruncher.

There is undeniable pleasure in watching these pros at work, but the murky depths of the soul can make for a dreary two hours.

Good acting and an effectively claustrophobic mood compensate for a story that doesn't add up to much in the long run.

Not even the high-caliber talents of Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman can save this stagy, ridiculously over-baked psychological thriller.

A profound disappointment, given its cast and source material.

Appears to be a somewhat sinister episode of "Nightline."

Overproduced, psychologically muddled, and burdened with an enchantingly overheated screenplay.