The Trigger Effect
Gramercy Pictures (I) | Release Date: August 30, 1996 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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VarietyKen Eisner
David Koepp's writing-helming bow is a bleak, highly stylized view of modern civilization. While The Trigger Effect maintains a potent mood of postmodern dread, even its proponents will be wondering what all the queasy fuss was about. Read full review
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Washington PostDesson Thomson
The Trigger Effect enjoys bursts of energy as people confront each other in low-budget groups of twos and threes, but it never becomes the subtly powerful experience Koepp was clearly after. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunStephen Hunter
Once the movie settles down to story, it turns out to play like an extended Twilight Zone episode that merely reiterates the theme of the first few minutes: that man is fundamentally a beast and he must struggle endlessly against his own worst instincts and that each victory over those instincts is merely provisional. Read full review
50
Washington PostRichard Harrington
The Trigger Effect feels half-cocked, undermined by its apparently very low budget and Koepp's flaccid directing. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Writer-director David Koepp shows a talent for presenting neat sequences, but they fail to come together in a satisfying whole. [30 Aug 1996, p.C9]
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