Undertow (2004) Critic Reviews

Green takes us to that place where we keep feelings that we treasure, but are a little afraid of.Read the full review

The movie builds slowly to its grinding climax, and the suspense -- the standard by which a thriller must primarily be judged -- is first-rate.Read the full review

Although there is violence and danger, this is less about the chase than it is about the relationship between the siblings.Read the full review

The result is a movie that doesn't add up to the sum of its parts, yet some of those parts connect deeply anyway.Read the full review

Undertow may prove the least immediately satisfying of Green's films, but it remains an achievement, emotionally rich and rife with biblical and mythic undertones.Read the full review

As with the 70's films of Terrence Malick, one of Undertow's producers, the more intoxicated it becomes with rural desolation and fecundity, the more deeply in touch it puts you with its characters' souls.Read the full review

The truth is that Undertow is like a conventional Hollywood movie operating on half its cylinders.Read the full review

Loses momentum midway into the boys' journey.Read the full review

It's no go. Green and Gothic make for a clumsy fit.Read the full review