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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
As directed by Dwight Little ("Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home," a morph of "The Day of the Dolphin" and "Lassie Come Home"), the tension-to-action sequences unspool efficiently.
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A lot of Murder at 1600 is well -done. Characters are introduced vividly,; there's a sense of realism in the White House scenes, and some of the dialogue by Wayne Beach and David Hodgin hits a nice ironic note. But then the movie kicks into auto - pilot. The last third of the film is a ready-made action movie plug-in.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
This latest entry in the White House genre is polished, but formulaic suspense.
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Film Threat
Director Dwight Little does a solid job to keep things credible and moving, while the script makes an earnest effort to hide the true villain until the climax.
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Empire Kim Newman
Though it might charitably be described as "a load of old cods", there is a certain entertainment value to Murder At 1600.
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Murder at 1600 has velocity and excitement, and that takes it a long way. It stars Wesley Snipes, which takes it a bit farther. And it's also lightweight, cliched and borderline ridiculous, which takes it back a few pegs.
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Wesley Snipes is terrific as the hero.
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San Francisco Examiner Barbara Shulgasser
By the time you get to the end of the movie and our heroes and Regis' cop buddy Dennis Miller must sprint through a series of tunnels beneath the White House racing against evil to save the presidency, if your credulity hasn't been tested you'll probably find your heart racing pleasantly.
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
There's hardly a single aspect of this motion picture that seems more than superficially credible, and if the United States government is really run in the Keystone Cops manner depicted in Wayne Beach and David Hodgin's script, then this country is in a great deal more trouble than anyone suspects.
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TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
It desperately wants to be a paranoid political thriller, but this cobbled-together collection of corruption-on-Capitol Hill and cop movie cliches is so implausible that it's hard to care about any of the conspiratorial cover-ups and counter cover-ups.
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