Michael Glover Smith’s review published on Letterboxd:
Cage is as good as everyone says, which makes me wish I liked the movie more. But I just can’t do it. I never fully bought into the world that this film is trying so hard to create. The plotting is overly schematic and the cinematography is unnecessarily murky. And the scene in which Cage’s Robin Feld reduces the gourmet Chef Finway to a blubbering idiot with a few Zen Buddhist-like questions is a very bad piece of screenwriting.
That it “subverts” the conventions of the revenge-thriller genre isn’t enough. Movies should be judged by what they are, not by what they aren’t.