Color of Night 1994

Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune: Color of Night and North represent the nadir of Willis' plummeting film career. He can be a most engaging talent; his script selection of late has been awful. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: It's a psycho-erotic thriller with more twists and shocks than the rattlesnake which, at one point, leaps out at star Bruce Willis-from a location we won't describe. (It would spoil one of the several dozen surprises.) Read more

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: I'm tempted to go ahead and explain just exactly how transparent -- and implausible -- this mystery is. But then I don't want to spoil it for people who are even worse than I am at this sort of thing. People like Forrest Gump. Read more

Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer: The killer may find his target, but Color of Night fails to hit the nail on the head by a frustrating margin. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: Mundane sex scenes, a standard L.A. car chase and Bakula's outrageously gory death scene (which plays like an unintentional parody) are all part of the predictable script. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: The enthusiastically nutty Color of Night has the single-mindedness of a bad dream, and about as much reliance on everyday logic. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Color of Night is a knuckleheaded thriller that means to get a rise out of audiences but will merely make them see red. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The plot gets so convoluted and farfetched that you still may be scratching your head after the denouement, but you probably won't be bored. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A deliriously brain-dead erotic thriller. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Where's John McClane when you need him? If nothing else, the main character from the two Die Hard films would have livened up proceedings in this pathetically inept psychological thriller. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Color of Night approaches badness from so many directions that one really must admire its imagination. Read more

Trevor Johnston, Time Out: This -- another of Willis's crimes against celluloid -- is a special kind of bad. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A clunker ripe for hecklers and oglers. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: A convoluted psychosexual thriller that promises the moon and gives us Bruce's butt. Read more