A young woman flees from immigration police, desperate to escape an inevitable fate. As the tension builds in a single continuous shot, her options narrow and freedom slips away.
A major plot twist, one not in the novel, occurs, and all of the film’s suspense sputters out like a balloon losing air.
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Sean Axmaker
RTStream on DemandNov 22, 2022
Director Arthur Ripley... turns Havana into network of underworld operatives just waiting to send the next unwitting victim into a web of terror.
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Donald J. Levit
RTReelTalk Movie ReviewsOct 11, 2013
Not so ingenious and engaging as other, Chandler-esque convolutions.
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Jeremy Heilman
RTMovieMartyr.comAug 15, 2012
A last-act plot twist, equally likely to alienate as to fascinate, makes Arthur Ripley's obscure The Chase an especially bizarre jaunt through a nightmarish crime world.