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Avg. Critic Score: 46 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
17 not for kids
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    David Klass, the screenwriter, gives Freeman and Judd more specific dialogue than is usual in thrillers; they sound as if they might actually be talking with each other and not simply advancing plot points. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    A solid second film from director Gary Fleder ("Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead"), it's sure to set pulses racing and spines tingling. Too bad it's at the expense of the dignity of young women everywhere. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times |

    Fleder has directed three-quarters of a terrific movie and one-quarter of pure Hollywood baloney. After carefully building up the suspense and tension through Cross and McTiernan's search, spiked with nail-biting encounters on both coasts, Fleder lets it trail off in anti-climax and banal violence. Read full review

  • 60
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    The movie -- adapted from James Patterson's novel by David Klass -- operates on the crime-movie equivalent of automatic pilot. It takes off, flies and lands without much creative intervention. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Replete with smart, capable characters and crimes so bizarre that they lend the film a suspiciously lurid nature, this tony suspenser is hampered by the presence of a villain who is all too obvious from the very beginning. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Stack

    For Morgan Freeman ("Seven") fans, it's a chance to see a great actor save a movie from itself. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Kiss the Girls is a fake psychological thriller that turns into a garishly schlocky and implausible bogeyman hunt. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Mr. Freeman projects a kindness, patience and canny intelligence that cut against the movie's fast pace and pumped-up shock effects. His performance is so measured it makes you want to believe in the movie much more than its gimmicky jerry-built plot ever permits. Read full review

  • 40
    The Onion A.V. Club | Keith Phipps

    Freeman and Judd are fine, as could be expected, but their pairing deserves a better movie -- not one with a cheap twist ending that will easily be spotted by anyone who's studied the complex machinations of any episode of Murder, She Wrote. Read full review

  • 40
    Austin Chronicle | Russell Smith

    It's diverting enough, and intermittently suspenseful, but also strangely empty and decadent in a way that truly merits that overused term. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says not for kids A thrill-less thriller. Too violent for kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this is a serial killer/stalker thriller that is completely inappropriate for young viewers. The predatory villain Casanova stalks and abducts women, and, if they do not obey him, he kills them. There are many scary scenes of the villain chasing his prey or hurting them, and some bloody fights. Although there is little nudity or onscreen sex, there is the constant awareness that the villain's prime motive is sex and that he views women as his sexual property. Profanity is used in context and sparingly, but it is nonetheless strong. The characters drink lightly and there is no illegal drug use, except in the case of the villain using a prescription drug to make his victims easier to handle. Social issues are seldom addressed in a straightforward way, except in the case of an escaped victim who challenges the idea that she should be protected and kept out of a case that involves her. The cast is racially diverse, and women are presented as resourceful and strong people as well as victims.
  • Families can talk about Casanova's distorted view of romance. How does a good relationship work, and can it ever be achieved by forcing one's own ideas on a partner, violently or not? Families could also talk about standard ideas of men and women in the roles of protectors and rescuers. Kate McTiernan, who escapes, feels responsible for the women who did not, and puts herself at risk to help them. Does she have a duty to do this?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: The villain abducts women and commits acts of sexual and physical violence upon them.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: There are many scary chase scenes, a few fist-fights, and a knife fight as well as discussions of acts of greater violence
  • sex false5 Sex: There is very little on-screen graphic sex or nudity, but the villain is portrayed as a sexual predator and there are some frank discussions about violent sex.
  • language false5 Language: The profanity is used in context, but there is a lot of it.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Characters drink lightly. The villain uses a prescription drug to stupefy his victims.
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