Reception
Charles Tatum of eFilmCritic.com awarded Asylum Seekers three stars calling the film's initial set-up as "promising" and declaring that "the possibilities are endless" after watching the opening part of the film. However, Tatum criticized the film for being too "bizarre" and "exhausting", stating that his opinion that "the surrealism should have been toned down" and concluded by calling the film "even more insane than its characters". He also added that, although the film lacked "strong characterization", the cast deserved praise for a "great job playing characters that are way way out there". Tatum did commend the director for her use of widescreen, "creepy imagery" and compared her work to works of Terry Gilliam and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Film critic T.R. Witcher of the Las Vegas Weekly awarded the film two stars. Witcher also applauded the opening sequences of Asylum Seekers for "brimming with ideas" and that it "begins with a promising premise". Ultimately, Withcher criticized the film by concluding that it lacks "storytelling discipline" and that it contains "even less human emotion". Agreeing with Tatum that Asylum Seekers is "surreal", he felt that its "fairly limp" comedy undercuts the suspensful psychological atmosphere created by the film's surrealism.
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