Off Limits

It is grimness without redemption, violence without mercy, and it lacks even the cheap cynicism that makes some Hollywood potboilers watchable.

Parts of the movie are entertaining, but as a whole, Off Limits is glib, a little too sure of itself. It's a movie outgunned by its own reckless energy.

There are tensions, which might have been drawn out, but aren't; and the greatest let-down is that the man you think did it, did do it.

It's a film about ordinary people put in unordinary circumstances pressed to extraordinary levels, and the film itself becomes extraordinary by the effort.