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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 30Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick PinkertonIt is dreary to envisage the viewer who could become emotionally involved in The Victim, but it does have the kind of slack watchability - lugubrious driving scenes and girl-talk flashbacks pad the movie toward feature length - that make for good late-night TV.
- 25New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithBiehn has appeared in dozens of B-movies and evidently had no greater ambition than to come up with a grindhouse movie full of sex, gore and cheap thrills, but there is far too little of any of these to maintain interest in a straight-on story that reserves its only surprise for the final 30 seconds.
- 20The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisTold with multiple flashbacks and minimal taste, this exuberantly scuzzy thriller - shot in less than two weeks with a budget as micro as the women's skirts - pits sleazy cops against fun-loving disrobers in the middle of scraggly foliage.
- 0Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenNot much happens in The Victim, but the events that do manage to transpire consistently support a reading of the film as an older man's fantasy of virility.
- 0New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThis is the kind of junky, hard-to-watch thriller that apologists claim is part of a long line of tough, grindhouse-style thrillers, but which is actually just amateurish gristle.