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Catch a Fire just doesn't spark.
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| (Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com) |
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The horrors of apartheid deserve a better treatment than this.
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| (Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune) |
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The film never strays much beyond the obvious, despite a conscientious effort by Tim Robbins to humanize a white security officer.
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| ( Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader) |
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The problem with Tim Robbins' dreadful turn as a South African "anti-terrorist" official in Catch A Fire - and it was also a problem with his sniveling Bill Gates impersonation in Antitrust - is that he can't hide his distaste for his own character.
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| (Scott Tobias, The Onion) |
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Robbins’s banal performance makes knee-jerk racism look indistinguishable from constipation. Noyce’s film-making is unusually jerky and listless.
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| (Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph) |
