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Beyond the Reach promises goofy genre pleasures, but fails to deliver, losing the viewer -- and a villainous turn from Michael Douglas -- in a misguided story that stumbles to the finish.
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There is the ghost of a good idea in this clunky machine. Jul 31, 2015 | Rating: 2/5
There is the ghost of a good idea in this clunky machine.
Sophie Monks Kaufman
The film is too wrapped up in its own dogma to entertain, and the deadly game of hide-and-seek that ensues becomes as monotonous as the baking desert landscape. Jul 30, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The film is too wrapped up in its own dogma to entertain, and the deadly game of hide-and-seek that ensues becomes as monotonous as the baking desert landscape.
Robbie Collin
John Madec is a millionaire with an array of expensive toys... He's Douglas's nastiest creation since Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Jul 30, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
John Madec is a millionaire with an array of expensive toys... He's Douglas's nastiest creation since Gordon Gekko in Wall Street.
Ed Potton
Michael Douglas serves up an enjoyably villainous performance for this survival thriller in the classic 70s style of Deliverance and Duel, based on the 1972 novel Deathwatch by Robb White. Jul 30, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Michael Douglas serves up an enjoyably villainous performance for this survival thriller in the classic 70s style of Deliverance and Duel, based on the 1972 novel Deathwatch by Robb White.
Peter Bradshaw
Michael Douglas chews the spectacular desert scenery in this silly, enjoyable survival thriller. Jul 27, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Michael Douglas chews the spectacular desert scenery in this silly, enjoyable survival thriller.
David Clack
Ultimately, the take-away from "Beyond the Reach" is this: Don't go into the desert with a guy in a blazer. Even if he offers you a martini. Apr 17, 2015 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Ultimately, the take-away from "Beyond the Reach" is this: Don't go into the desert with a guy in a blazer. Even if he offers you a martini.
Moira MacDonald
The Reach's entertainment value is just as dry and empty as its vast desert location. Jun 4, 2019 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review…
The Reach's entertainment value is just as dry and empty as its vast desert location.
C.J. Prince
There is simply not enough logic or motivation to explain the film's second half, and it completely destroys the relatively promising work undertaken in the first. Jun 2, 2019 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review…
There is simply not enough logic or motivation to explain the film's second half, and it completely destroys the relatively promising work undertaken in the first.
Grant Watson
Douglas's Gordon Wakko wealthy-bastard schtick keeps Beyond The Reach from getting trapped in an all too familiar game of cat-and-mouse. May 3, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Douglas's Gordon Wakko wealthy-bastard schtick keeps Beyond The Reach from getting trapped in an all too familiar game of cat-and-mouse.
Stephen O'Nion
Beyond the Reach has a ripped from the headlines topicality, but unfortunately this plodding thriller consistently fails to engage. Apr 5, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Beyond the Reach has a ripped from the headlines topicality, but unfortunately this plodding thriller consistently fails to engage.
John Bleasdale
The execution is so good it's easy to forgive it its improbabilities. Oct 30, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The execution is so good it's easy to forgive it its improbabilities.
Matthew Bond
While Léonetti's film is never less than ridiculous, it forgets to also be fun. Jun 14, 2016 | Full Review…
While Léonetti's film is never less than ridiculous, it forgets to also be fun.
Sherilyn Connelly
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