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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickThe agent in this interesting little thriller — well played by John Cusack — is up to the Company’s usual dirty tricks.
- 70Village VoiceChuck WilsonVillage VoiceChuck WilsonThere are some decent shootouts, but the movie's strongest assets are the soulful performances Danish director Kasper Barfoed, making his American debut, draws from Cusack and Akerman.
- In The Numbers Station, a joyless sins-of-the-government thriller, Cusack sinks to new depths of meditative glumness to play a black-ops agent nursing a guilty conscience.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesBill StametsChicago Sun-TimesBill StametsDirector Kasper Barfoed defaults to intense replays of surveillance audio recordings, frantic strokes on computer keyboards, and standard-issue chases.
- 40VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangSentencing a sad-looking John Cusack and a hard-working Malin Akerman to roughly 90 minutes of solitary confinement in a poorly lit underground bunker, this glum, juiceless spy thriller is a by-the-numbers affair indeed, unlikely to find an audience on any frequency.
- 25Slant MagazineSlant MagazineSits awkwardly between shoot 'em up and psychological thriller without offering the excitement of either.
- 20The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThis dreary spy drama is as flat and airless as the concrete bunker in which it unfolds.
- 20Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleA predictable hodgepodge of uninteresting psychological cat-and-mouse, dimly lighted action.