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24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80VarietyRob NelsonVarietyRob NelsonA highly satisfying Western-cum-noir in the old tradition, Deadfall is alive in ways that are all too rare among American movies.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterTonally, Deadfall seems to be aiming somewhere between Sam Raimi's "A Simple Plan" and the brilliant Pine Barrens episode of "The Sopranos," with a classic Western showdown at its climax. But the pedestrian writing holds it back.
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliDeadfall suffers most obviously from a sense of not being adequately developed.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceThere are hints of a fun, trashy film beneath the surface, but that film is always subservient to the dull one Dean and Ruzowitzky were more comfortable making.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThere isn't much to the characters in this morose thriller.
- 38Slant MagazineSlant MagazineNone of Eric Bana's mildly rousing moments clearly rise above the laborious gobbledygook that Ruzowitzky builds up through the course of the film's 94-minute duration.
- A crime saga cobbled together from scraps of genre predecessors, Deadfall's unbelievable silliness escalates at every turn.
- 20Time OutTime OutRuzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) may be an occasionally interesting visual stylist, but storytelling-wise, his second English-language effort couldn't be more stillborn.