Beyond the Reach 2014

Kyle Smith, New York Post: "Beyond the Reach" fails to achieve the Southwestern noir potency of "No Country for Old Men," but there's no denying it brings to mind another Southwestern classic about malicious pursuit: the Road Runner cartoons. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: The movie tries too hard to promise nail-crunching terror that it never really delivers. Read more

Scott Foundas, Variety: A preposterously bad, grade-Z adventure yarn in which a crazed billionaire hunter chases a skivvy-stripped guide through the Mojave Desert for upwards of 90 minutes, while the audience looks on in quiet disbelief. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: "Beyond the Reach" is a misfire, one of those movies that never quite rises to the level of guilty pleasure. Read more

Jon Frosch, Hollywood Reporter: Not even a gleeful Michael Douglas can make this a cat-and-mouse game worth playing. Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: "Beyond the Reach" is a grueling, unsatisfying thriller that fails the logic test in spectacular ways. Read more

Amy Nicholson, L.A. Weekly: Michael Douglas seems to have been slithering toward this part for 40 years Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It isn't nearly as much creepy fun as it sounds like. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: The title of this turgid chase drama couldn't be more apt: almost everything escapes its aim. Read more

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: Doesn't add anything to the human-hunts-a-human genre but is effectively served. Read more

Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: There's not much here: The characters are paper-thin, and the action is slow, at times agonizingly so. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Ultimately, the take-away from "Beyond the Reach" is this: Don't go into the desert with a guy in a blazer. Even if he offers you a martini. Read more

Michael Ordona, San Francisco Chronicle: The flat-out awful ending ... deflates much of the goodwill built up by the rest of the film. Read more

Brad Wheeler, Globe and Mail: A deadly, desert-set game of cat and mouse that is tired and beyond plausibility. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Douglas is in his element and the throwback, stylized look of the production makes Beyond the Reach an entertaining hit of escapist fun. Read more

David Clack, Time Out: Michael Douglas chews the spectacular desert scenery in this silly, enjoyable survival thriller. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: There are goofy, primal pleasures to be had in the first two-thirds of the film. But "Beyond the Reach" exceeds even its humble grasp in the final act, collapsing in a clatter of blockheaded manhunter-movie cliches. Read more