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Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: Splashes its drama all over the screen, subjecting its audience and characters to action that feels not only manufactured, but also so false you can see the filmmakers' puppet strings. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: A reasonably efficient mechanism, but it offers few surprises and finds its stars slumming in territory they should have avoided. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: True to its title, it traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The movie is a negligible work of manipulation, an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: There is no pleasure in watching a child suffer. Just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Feels like the faceless product of a Hollywood screenwriting computer program, one that provide everything but personality and a brain. Read more
Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: Adapting his novel 24 Hours, first-time screenwriter Greg Iles has neglected to include in his plotting a sense of impending doom, a lack of purpose that isn't helped by the arid filmmaking style of director Luis Mandoki. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Indifferently implausible popcorn programmer of a movie. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Brisk hack job. Read more