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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerEnough action, a tiny pinch of sex and some campy moments from Morgan Fairchild.
- 63TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe story delivers enough twists and turns to be engaging without feeling like work, and the overall vibe is dangerous and flirty rather than brutal or excessively graphic.
- A sly, refreshingly grown-up gay entertainment, though rather less satisfying as a thriller.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceDirector Ron Oliver applies a thin veneer of straight-to-cable pseudo-gloss without finding a workable tone, and the cast lacks the charisma and chemistry to make the genre and gender-bending register as more than novelty.
- So grimly determined to be even-handed that it never generates tension.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckShock to the System demonstrates that merely subverting genre conventions doesn't quite make for compelling entertainment.