A stranger armed with a shotgun takes seven patrons hostage in a remote roadside diner. But as the body count increases, the desperate survivors discover that one of the hostages may be even more dangerous than their captor.
Mark Young's bargain-basement thriller is as witless as the captor's motive; to paraphrase another well-dressed Madsen psycho, this little doggie barks, but it has no bite.
– Aaron Hillis,
Time Out New York,
17 Mar 2010
rotten:
A spectacularly boring chamber thriller.
– Andrew Barker,
Variety,
18 Mar 2010
rotten:
What dribbles out is a series of repetitive, dull, cliched showdowns until most of the cast is gruesomely dispatched and the twist-that-isn't-a-twist is revealed.
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar 2010
rotten:
There's little fun involved, for either the audience or the diner patrons.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
19 Mar 2010
rotten:
Strains to wring tension from a tired premise and an airless script.