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18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Film ThreatBobby LePireFilm ThreatBobby LePireCage and Kinnaman work well together, with the former being gloriously over-the-top and the latter keeping things grounded in a form of reality. All in all, this thriller works from beginning to end.
- 75The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakCage is having the time of his life playing the role––flippant, unhinged, oozing the confidence of a man with nothing to lose.
- 70IGNKatie RifeIGNKatie RifeNicolas Cage’s live-wire performance fuels a compelling, if predictable, crime thriller.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerCage chews up every scene he’s in and seems to be having a blast — he’s always over-the-top and never boring to watch, in a film that delivers the goods for those who like him best when he’s just about lost his mind.
- 67ColliderMarco Vito OddoColliderMarco Vito OddoSympathy for the Devil should be thankful for Cage and Kinnaman's brilliant dynamics as, without them, the movie would be nothing more than a bland thriller.
- 60Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonDirector Yuval Adler taps into the lean story’s Collateral-like intrigue but, outside of Cage’s hair-trigger antics, there is not much surprise here — especially when the filmmaker unveils a twist most will see coming down the road.
- 50Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeSlant MagazineSteven ScaifeWith copious scenes of Nicolas Cage going buck wild, it can hardly be faulted for failing to give audiences what they want.
- 50SlashfilmChris EvangelistaSlashfilmChris EvangelistaYou can drop Nic Cage in your dull movie all you want, but when you do, you're only getting a memorable Cage performance in an otherwise unmemorable story. I love to watch Cage work. I just wish I didn't have to watch him work under these conditions.
- 50VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThe tension that should fire up this joint throughout never quite catches hold, because there are never any tangible stakes. These characters and their crisis remain just a premise, too incompletely worked out to either generate urgent suspense or enter the realm of surreal fantasia as Cage did in a long-ago road nightmare, “Wild at Heart.”