Beyond the Reach
Roadside Attractions | Release Date: April 17, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
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1
Mixed:
10
Negative:
8
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsApr 17, 2015
Watching Douglas behave like a narcissistic scumbag is an absolute pleasure, one in which viewers of action-adventure Beyond the Reach can happily indulge. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonDavid ClackJul 27, 2015
The cat-and-mouse chase across the desert that follows is entertaining to begin with but unnecessarily drawn out, leaving far too much room for Douglas to plug with cartoonish quips and daft machismo. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniApr 17, 2015
But there's not much here: The characters are paper-thin, and the action is slow, at times agonizingly so. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMichael OrdonaApr 16, 2015
The flat-out awful ending, though, deflates much of the goodwill built up by the rest of the film. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerApr 16, 2015
Any wilderness ordeal has to help some character clarify something, and for Ben it’s his relationship with his girlfriend (Hanna Mangan-Lawrence), which gives the film a modest side interest. But mostly this one is for fans of desert scenery and of Mr. Douglas in cranky, crazy mode. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedApr 15, 2015
The formulaic cat-and-mouse game played to the death rattle by Michael Douglas’ rich, vicious corporate maniac and Jeremy Irvine’s nice, clean-cut, homespun country boy in Beyond the Reach is so old it’s hairy. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 15, 2015
The 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. Read full review
50
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthApr 14, 2015
For 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. Read full review
40
The DissolveKate ErblandApr 16, 2015
The 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. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzApr 16, 2015
Beyond the Reach is a misfire, one of those movies that never quite rises to the level of guilty pleasure. Read full review
40
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonApr 14, 2015
Madec 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. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerApr 16, 2015
Beyond the Reach, adapted from the same Robb White Deathwatch novel that spawned the 1974 Andy Griffith-starring television movie "Savages," is a deadly, desert-set game of cat and mouse that is tired and beyond plausibility. Read full review
37
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanApr 16, 2015
There 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. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinApr 16, 2015
Beyond the Reach is a grueling, unsatisfying thriller that fails the logic test in spectacular ways. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschApr 16, 2015
Not even Douglas can redeem The Reach, the terminally silly and thoroughly disposable new thriller he stars in and produced. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezApr 12, 2015
If all a movie needed was a boy with abs and a gun (or slingshot), then Beyond the Reach would be a masterpiece. Read full review
20
VarietyScott FoundasApr 16, 2015
A preposterously bad, grade-Z adventure yarn. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierApr 16, 2015
This 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. Read full review
12
New York PostKyle SmithApr 15, 2015
The 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. Read full review
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