Critical Reception
Rotten Tomatoes currently review this movie at 39% fresh, or an overall rating of 5.8/10. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it two and a half stars out of four, stating that the story "complex to be reduced to a formula in which everything depends on who shoots who" but adds "there are some nice touches."
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