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19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe PlaylistKevin JagernauthFor a movie that rides on a well-executed, modest and at times playful B-movie engine, the film stumbles in its final third, with goofy plotting... and a turn from the subdued to the hysterical.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe folks re-adapting White’s book for Beyond the Reach tamper and tinker with perfection — a little overly convenient cheating here, a contrived finale that goes wrong and then goes more wrong. The film staggers under these blows and never really recovers.
- 40Village VoiceAmy NicholsonVillage VoiceAmy NicholsonMadec and Ben's showdown becomes a battle to see which type of man is best equipped for survival: the well-funded scoundrel or the honest grunt. The film is too honest itself to always give us the answer we want. It's also too dully on-the-nose to entertain.
- 40Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzBeyond the Reach is a misfire, one of those movies that never quite rises to the level of guilty pleasure.
- 40The DissolveKate ErblandThe DissolveKate ErblandThe film leans heavily on well-trod “most dangerous game” territory, but the insistence on inscrutable characters and cheap twists never lets it feel actually dangerous. It just feels vacuous.
- 37Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanThere are goofy, primal pleasures to be had in the first two-thirds of the film. But Beyond the Reach exceeds even its humble grasp in the final act, collapsing in a clatter of blockheaded manhunter-movie cliches. Crazy is one thing, but dumb is unforgivable.
- 25Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezIf all a movie needed was a boy with abs and a gun (or slingshot), then Beyond the Reach would be a masterpiece.
- 20New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThis film, though, lacks any spine. Director Jean-Baptiste Leonetti isn’t sure if he’s making a Hemingway-lite faceoff or a hemmed-in horror flick.
- 12New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithThe ludicrous action thriller Beyond the Reach fails to achieve the Southwestern noir potency of “No Country for Old Men,” but there’s no denying it brings to mind another Southwestern classic about malicious pursuit: the Road Runner cartoons.