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20 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweThe Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweFredrik Bond makes a promising feature debut with this fanciful crime-drama romance that gratifyingly eschews strict genre classification.
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreThe bad guys really stand out, with Mikkelsen pulling off something he never managed as a Bond villain. He’s genuinely frightening.
- 42The A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergThe A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergIn a film this hapless, it’s hardly a surprise that no one can keep Bucharest and Budapest straight.
- 40Time OutTime OutIt’s an engrossing, overstuffed disaster—sometimes captivating, sometimes too ingeniously terrible to turn away from; it’s like watching a car wreck in slow motion, if both cars were stuffed with confetti.
- 38Slant MagazineNick McCarthySlant MagazineNick McCarthyAn egregious entry into the pantheon of films about white Americans traveling to exotic lands in search of identity and soul-searching adventure.
- 33The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe PlaylistRodrigo PerezCharlie Countryman opens up with an interesting first section, but only backslides deeper and deeper in its overwrought and incoherent second and third acts.
- 30Village VoiceInkoo KangVillage VoiceInkoo KangLaBeouf and Wood don't clang, but they don't quite click, either. That's not enough for the film to persuade us of its message, that love is worth any sacrifice.
- 10VarietyJohn AndersonVarietyJohn AndersonFredrik Bond’s direction and Matt Drake’s screenplay deliver a charisma-free trip into a world of gratuitous violence, contrivances and tedium.
- 0Film.comJordan HoffmanFilm.comJordan HoffmanA pastiche of bad film cliches and scenes devoid of any real conflict or character development.