Critic Reviews

• Jan Stuart, Newsday

  Energetic, earnestly performed and short on nuance.

• Stephen Holden, New York Times

  The performances are correspondingly overblown and the soundtrack inundated with grandiose choral music and mediocre hard rock.

• Ed Park, Village Voice

  Robotic acting and outtakes from the Stigmata soundtrack complement the perfunctory plot, while the dialogue indulges massive backstorytelling and desperate iteration.

• David Nusair, Apollo Guide

  From start to finish, it feels like an amalgam of various other crime movies.

• Robert Roten, Laramie Movie Scope

  A hard-edged gangster revenge movie which suffers from a budget too small to enable it to rise to its rightful place as a major crime genre film.

• Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

  It's less than ordinary in every which way.

• Steve Simels, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  It may not be as epochal a piece of work as Mean Streets, but packs what feels like a real-life punch none the less.

• Eric Monder, Film Journal International

  For an updated -- but not revisionist -- version of Dead End or Angels With Dirty Faces or even Mean Streets, you could do worse.

• Jon Popick, Planet Sick-Boy

  Seems to be cut from the same cloth as almost every low-budget mobster film.

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