A seemingly mild mannered man -- who has just murdered his entire family -- quickly adopts a new identity and leaves town. After building a new relationship with a widow and her teenage daughter, he struggles to hide his true identity and maintain a grip on reality.
The styling is never less than assured, and [director] Ruben knows how to put bland, unruffled surfaces to sinister Hitchcockian uses.
– Pat Graham,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
While I was watching the film, I was distracted by elements of the Idiot Plot Syndrome -- moments when only an idiot would have made such obvious mistakes.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Too often disappointingly thin.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
rotten:
One is left longing for Hitchcock's dark, daring wit and disturbingly amoral insights.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
An engrossing suspense thriller that refreshingly doesn't cheat the audience in terms of valid clues and plot twists.