Out of Time (2003) Critic Reviews

Entertainingly deft sleight-of-hand thriller.Read the full review

A bleakly comic, palm-sweaty hoot.Read the full review

I reckon 90 of the movie's 106 minutes are thriller heaven. The windup, alas, isn't in the same league: Both humdrum and confusingly staged, it pales beside the volcanic climaxes of Franklin's "One False Move" (1992) and "Devil in a Blue Dress."Read the full review

Mr. Franklin has always been easy with quicksilver moods -- and Mr. Washington is terrifically appealing as a fool for love who loses his cool as he learns about fear. Read the full review

Suspension of disbelief, always necessary in a thriller, is required here in wholesale quantities. But in a movie like Out of Time I'm not looking for realism, I'm looking for a sense of style brought to genre material.Read the full review

A shrewd thriller that takes the time-honored plot about an innocent man wrongfully accused and gives it a film-noir twist. Read the full review

It's a kick to watch Denzel Washington do a movie just for the hot, sexy fun of it. Read the full review

There's something about the movie that sets it apart from the usual thriller. Franklin may not be a master of genre like Hammett and Chandler, but he knows that it means SOMETHING when a character throws a punch or fires a gun. Read the full review

Until that sugar coating at the end, Out of Time is clever, believable and gripping, and seems to be headed to a wondrous, bad place as it carefully modulates classic '40s themes.Read the full review