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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 25Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezRobert Lieberman's Perverted Justice advert spins its wheels with scene after scene impatiently cut like a montage sequence.
- 20Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfA last-minute twist implicating the audience in the bloodlust isn't clever so much as hypocritical.
- 20Village VoiceVillage VoiceLean, nasty, and patently absurd, The Tortured plays like one long scream of agony.
- 20New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanIt's bluntly written, poorly shot and edited, and cruel without being clever.
- 16The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasThere's an opportunity here for screenwriter Marek Posival and director Robert Lieberman to play up the squeamishness of upper-middle-class torturers who don't fit the profile, but they're too busy tending to horror-thriller clichés.
- 10The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisVeering from ridiculous to revolting, The Tortured would like to be about more than singed nipples and seared skin. And it is: It's also about cracked toes and lanced eardrums.
- 0New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithThe movie is so inept - with its flat characters, histrionic acting, dull dialogue ("Killing him is not going to change anything"), a dreadfully overdone musical score and la-la-la flashbacks starring the kid - that its clichés grow slightly funny. But not funny enough to make the endless torture scenes bearable.