An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
A vague and forgettable crime thriller that would have benefited from more character development or at least a grounding of the narrative in one central protagonist.
– Matthew Kassel,
New York Observer,
21 Aug 2013
rotten:
Although writer-director Scott Walker seems committed to not overly exploiting his lurid subject matter, the movie is just too dreary, disjointed and generically creepy to be persuasive.
– Gary Goldstein,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Aug 2013
rotten:
The movie's late-night cable feel and skeevy salaciousness grinds everything to a snowy slush.
– Joe Neumaier,
New York Daily News,
22 Aug 2013
rotten:
The movie's only fresh element is the wintry setting, which shrouds everything in a mood of weary fatalism. Otherwise, it's the same old, same old, efficiently discharged and utterly disposable.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
22 Aug 2013
fresh:
A taut procedural with atmospheric location work that traces Cage's clock-racing efforts to find evidence against Cusack ...