When a desperate man’s car breaks down in a bizarre desert town while evading vengeful bookies, he becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle. Caught between a married couple, he’s faced with deadly contracts to kill them both.
The stylistic fun Stone has in dramatizing this crime of passion thoroughly revitalizes the well-worked genre.
– Todd McCarthy,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
Penn turns in a crisp, unfussy comic performance, Lopez vamps like a scorpion in heat, Nolte sustains a pretty good John Huston impression, and Thornton is mighty peculiar as the mechanic from hell.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
It's a disappointing ride.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
25 Apr 2003
rotten:
It's so empty emotionally it's difficult to see what the point is, unless it's the celebration of emptiness, an aim that has become so familiar recently it hardly seems worth the trouble everyone has gone to.
– Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb 2001
rotten:
It demonstrates a filmmaker in complete command of his craft and with little control over his impulses.