Every choice has a consequence. But what if the flip of a coin could trigger two separate but parallel destinies? Bobby and Kate are a young New York couple at a crossroads whose lives are about to take very different directions. A seemingly ordinary July 4th is cleaved in two by the flip of a coin. One path leads them to gentle discoveries about family, loss and each other on a visit to Brooklyn, and the other plunges them into an urban nightmare of pursuit, suspense and murder in Manhattan.
Excellent New York City location shooting and the ever-reliable Joseph Gordon-Levitt can't salvage this gimmicky, overlong thriller from Scott McGehee and David Siegel...
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
13 Nov 2009
fresh:
A taut, skillful exercise in cinematic clockwork.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
13 Nov 2009
rotten:
The film bets everything on an unconventional structure, but fails to do much with it.
– Walter V. Addiego,
San Francisco Chronicle,
11 Dec 2009
fresh:
You either swallow it and learn to love it, or you start running.
– Philippe Garnier,
L.A. Weekly,
14 Dec 2009
fresh:
Rain Li's crisp cinematography gives the entwined stories different but complementary visual styles. Paul Zucker's editing supports each genre then poses fresh questions by leaping from one to the other.