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20 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenA movie that knows how to pace its audience. Watching it is like going for a long and satisfying jog.
- 63San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserSan Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserI like that Sheridan's girlfriend works at Starbucks. Snipes plays the part with the kind of high energy that large doses of caffeine would explain.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe result is unconvincing and disorganized. Yes, there are some spectacular stunts and slick special effects sequences. Yes, Jones is right on the money, and Snipes makes a sympathetic fugitive. But it's the story that has to pull this train, and its derailment is about as definitive as the train crash in the earlier film.
- 63The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyWho really wants to go to an escape movie and have to work this hard to figure it out?
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe action sequences were often nail-biters, the lead characters were well-developed, and the dialogue was intelligent.
- 50USA TodayMike ClarkUSA TodayMike ClarkYou don't get the sense that too many enthusiasts are hanging up wanted posters for the ho-hum-ish U.S. Marshals. [6 March 1998, pg. 04.D]
- 50Austin ChronicleRussell SmithAustin ChronicleRussell SmithIronically, the problem may lie in Baird and screenwriter John Pogue's over-eagerness to give us what they think we want.
- It isn't so much a bad action movie as a symptom of the greater problem with most action movies: Audiences tire of sitting through the same fitful, unfulfilling formula, no matter how much terse language and gunfire is tossed in.
- 50New York Daily NewsNew York Daily NewsTommy Lee Jones seems to have misplaced the flinty resolve, gruff charm and fatherly concern that defined his earlier outing. [6 March 1998, p. 48]
- 25San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleGoing after one innocent man was bad enough. Going after another constitutes a pattern. This marshal isn't a hero. He's a menace.