Crazy as Hell
Artistic License | Release Date: September 27, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
4
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70
New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. Thompson
Utilizing lots of complicated, well-choreographed steadicam shots, La Salle directs with confidence -- this may yet be his true calling.
60
TV Guide MagazineSteve Simels
As a director, La Salle manages to sustain a mood of looming menace almost throughout, and as an actor he gets the film's best joke: When his Satan fills out his hospital admission form, he gives his social security number as 666. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Starts encouragingly and finishes strongly with a twist, but the middle is weighed down by too much discourse when it should be visually evoking its ideas and developing its mood of unease. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMark Holcomb
Uneasy mélange of occult thriller and insane-asylum-as-social-microcosm parable. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
It could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened. As it is, only LaSalle's sizzling performance makes Crazy more than a by-the-numbers psycho-horror thriller. Read full review
30
The New York TimesDave Kehr
Starts on a note of relative naturalism and under Mr. La Salle's nuanced direction gradually becomes more and more unhinged until it concludes in an altogether different genre. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Hell is sitting through a movie in which you have no respect for the protagonist and the "surprise" ending is as clearly lit as the exit sign. Read full review
25
New York PostMegan Lehmann
The script is so overstuffed with painfully obvious clues (the constant patina of sweat on the cocky doctor's face, for one) that we don't need the ominous rumbles on the soundtrack to tell us where we're headed. Read full review
20
VarietyScott Foundas
An erratic, psychobabbling jumble of scenes that never builds to any discernible point. Read full review
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