Despite the gimlet eye of Richard Eyre, former director of England's Royal National Theatre, and the top-echelon talents of an impressive cast, a dreary, disabled disaster called The Other Man drops dead at the starting gate.
– Rex Reed,
New York Observer,
23 Sep 2009
rotten:
Before long, the characters, which director Richard Eyre adapted from a Bernhard Schlink short story, cease to be people and start to become devices.
– Stephen Whitty,
Newark Star-Ledger,
25 Sep 2009
rotten:
Everyone seems as if they're going through the motions.
– Cary Darling,
Dallas Morning News,
25 Sep 2009
rotten:
The result is B-grade cheese. The only genuine mystery, for me, is why such a fine cast signed on for such a witless movie.
– Amy Biancolli,
Houston Chronicle,
25 Sep 2009
rotten:
Neeson, in particular, has to rumble through the movie behaving in a way consistent with the ending and comes off as far over the top in the process.