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Metascore
25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliIt's a thinking person's thriller, where pyrotechnics give way to plot, character development supplants fight scenes, and adrenaline does not short-circuit intelligence.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranA political thriller with more plausibility -- and yes, more thrills -- than most.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceAn intramural debate masquerading as an action movie.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIt's a cautionary tale about the excesses of jingoist paranoia, and the folly of it all is that the more the film descends into somber liberal chest thumping, the less engrossing it becomes.
- 60SalonCharles TaylorSalonCharles TaylorIf The Siege frustrates anyone, it should be the moviegoers who turn up expecting the kind of clean resolution that action movies thrive on.
- 50The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsAs a nail-biting thriller, The Siege is too confusing, and as a thought-provoking social drama, too confused.
- 50San Francisco ExaminerWalter AddiegoSan Francisco ExaminerWalter AddiegoAt some point, the movie itself crosses the line, from a modestly thoughtful attempt to extrapolate a drama from real and urgent events to a generic action piece with predictable good and bad guys and pat, civics-book morals.
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThis is a dumb action flick that pretends to have a brain, a spot of affectation that plunges the audience into double jeopardy -- forcing us to traipse through not just the standard litter of bloody corpses but (oh, damn) the added trash of bloodless ideas.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIn an attempt to be complex and fair-minded, a simple story becomes a jumble of confused motivations.