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4 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Observer (UK)The Observer (UK)Engagingly wry thriller starring Charles Bronson as a Texas adventurer hired by Jill Ireland to spring her innocent husband (Robert Duvall) from a Mexican jail. [08 Oct 2000, p.10]
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertBronson is a first-rate action star with a catlike grace and a nice air of menace. But here, trying to land a helicopter after only a few lessons on how to fly it, or staging a phony rape scene to distract prison guards, Bronson is given a sort of incompetency he doesn't wear well. We believe him more easily when he's strong, silent and infallible.
- Unmotivated, often plodding, and singularly without humor, this film could have been terrific.