The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
A courtroom thriller that becomes sillier and more generic as it zips along. It moves fast (a rare quality for a contemporary thriller), but doesn’t end up going anywhere interesting.
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Director
Peter Howitt
Cast
Samuel L. Jackson,
Dominic Cooper,
Erin Karpluk,
Gloria Reuben,
Ryan Robbins,
Philippe Brenninkmeyer
Genre
Crime,
Thriller
When up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to throw the case against the accused criminal who was found with the body and blamed for the crime. Following the trial, Mitch's worst fears come true when he realizes that he acquitted a guilty man, and he soon finds himself on the hunt for the killer before more victims pile up.
The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
A courtroom thriller that becomes sillier and more generic as it zips along. It moves fast (a rare quality for a contemporary thriller), but doesn’t end up going anywhere interesting.
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
Contrived and predictable yet fairly tense.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
In lieu of tension, the film is stuffed with crazed musical crescendos, amateurish structural feints and pregnant pauses that cry out for the familiar “chu-CHUNG” of a “Law & Order” scene change.
Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen
You may feel as if you're watching two or three abbreviated episodes of Law & Order in quick succession rather than a fully realized movie.
Variety by Scott Foundas
This utterly unmemorable, uninspired and unnecessary genre exercise should fade from view so fast they might just as soon have called it “Without a Trace.”
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