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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceThat Sweetwater is so generic doesn't prevent it from being intermittently entertaining.
- 50Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleAs violent act begets silly exchange begets another violent act, Sweetwater squanders its noteworthy resources — a cast enjoying themselves (especially Isaacs and Harris), and some effectively brooding outdoor cinematography.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Old West is portrayed as a venal loony bin in Sweetwater, a handsomely designed, occasionally funny but ultimately empty female vengeance yarn.
- 50The DissolveWilliam GossThe DissolveWilliam GossRare is the Western that’s too low-rent to be satisfyingly lurid, but with hardly any tension or personality to its name, Sweetwater just misses the mark.
- 40Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghArizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghThe characters aren’t the only things painted in broad strokes. Sweetwater is rife with gauche symbolism and imagery.
- 30VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeFancy-sounding dialogue and handsome widescreen lensing goes only so far to disguise the shallowness of the underlying material.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleA revenge-fantasy Western that wants to luxuriate in its B-movie roots but suffers from dull direction and an even duller central performance.