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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 40The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinThe screenplay, by Harold Nebenzal, leaves one end of this story conspicuously untied, but it does its best to titillate the audience with a mixture of teen-age porn and trademark Bronson spitefulness.
- Bronson does his usual violent-teddy-bear number believably, and the other actors do what they can with the formula script and hack direction.
- 30Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonLos Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonThompson has always had an evil sense of humor, and the movie repeatedly crosses the line between dramatizing a situation and exploiting it, exposing racism or moral rot and almost indulging in it. But the disturbance you feel in watching Kinjite doesn’t just come because it has a sordid subject, some bad scenes or a heavy cargo of shock and sleaze, but because it leaves us, much of the time, with no moral anchor.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAn odd, well-made and thoroughly unpleasant thriller.
- 25Chicago TribuneDave KehrChicago TribuneDave KehrKinjite is clearly the work of dedicated industry veterans, all of whom decided to go home after lunch. [03 Mar 1989, p.P]
- 10Washington PostRichard HarringtonWashington PostRichard HarringtonKinjite: Forbidden Subjects could be the worst Charles Bronson film ever, and that's saying something. If it were any slower, it would be running backward.
- 0Miami HeraldJuan Carlos CotoMiami HeraldJuan Carlos CotoB-movie king Charles Bronson, whose long association with Cannon Films has set all-time lows in the idiotic, hits rock bottom in Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects. [03 Feb 1989, p.C5]
- 0Portland OregonianTed MaharPortland OregonianTed MaharA dull parade of violence, calculated sleaze and midlife angst. [08 Feb 1989, p.D05]