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Metascore
28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Possible unmet expectations aside, Color of Night remains compelling for a number of reasons. Foremost among them is Bruce Willis, who gives a quietly persuasive performance.
- 40TV Guide MagazineTV Guide Magazine[A] sleazy, generally embarrassing Hitchcock knock-off.
- 40The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinThe enthusiastically nutty Color of Night has the single-mindedness of a bad dream, and about as much reliance on everyday logic.
- 40Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovColor of Night is yet another in a string of vapid, low-tension headaches passing for suspense thrillers (Fatal Attraction, Jennifer 8, Single White Female) that tries to go everywhere and, instead, goes nowhere. At all.
- 38Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertColor of Night approaches badness from so many directions that one really must admire its imagination. Combining all the worst ingredients of an Agatha Christie whodunit and a sex-crazed slasher film, it ends in a frenzy of recycled thriller elements, with a chase scene, a showdown in an echoing warehouse, and not one but two cliches from Ebert's Little Movie Glossary: The Talking Killer and the Climbing Villain.
- 30Washington PostRita KempleyWashington PostRita KempleyA convoluted psychosexual thriller that promises the moon and gives us Bruce's butt.
- 25Chicago TribuneGene SiskelChicago TribuneGene SiskelOf all of its lies, the worst may be that Color of Night perpetuates the notion that people who seek therapy are more dangerous to others than those who don't. The film also makes a direct link between sexual appetite and violence.
- 20VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyColor of Night is a knuckleheaded thriller that means to get a rise out of audiences, but will merely make them see red. It's confounding and sad that director Richard Rush waited 14 years to make another film after his striking "The Stunt Man," only to choose a script as dismal as this.