Rotten
Strains to wring tension from a tired premise and an airless script.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
The Killing Jar
Eeny, meeny, miny, murder.
2010 · 1h 32m · R
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Mark Young
Overview
A stranger armed with a shotgun takes seven patrons hostage in a remote roadside diner. But as the body count increases, the desperate survivors discover that one of the hostages may be even more dangerous than their captor.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
There's little fun involved, for either the audience or the diner patrons.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Rotten
What dribbles out is a series of repetitive, dull, cliched showdowns until most of the cast is gruesomely dispatched and the twist-that-isn't-a-twist is revealed.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
A spectacularly boring chamber thriller.
Andrew Barker, Variety
Rotten
Mark Young's bargain-basement thriller is as witless as the captor's motive; to paraphrase another well-dressed Madsen psycho, this little doggie barks, but it has no bite.
Aaron Hillis, Time Out New York
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