- 6
...works as a melodrama, and it benefits enormously from the performance of Wanda DeJesus.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 6
...most interesting as a portrait of a young man understanding which ones he must break down and which ones he must uphold. That's love, people.
—Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine
- 6
...has the snap of a truly surprising thriller...
—Marc Bernardin Entertainment Weekly
- 5
...preposterous...
—Maitland McDonagh TV Guide
- 4
...we?re too bored to have fun.
—Robert Wilonsky LA Weekly
- 4
...loses itself in a lot of silly juvenilia.
—Scott Tobias Onion AV Club
- 4
...the vast vapidity behind Illegal Tender's ill-conceived story line is far harder to overcome.
—Tasha Robinson Chicago Tribune
- 4
Luridly earnest and laughably immoral...
—Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times
- 4
The result recalls an episode of CSI: Miami but is even less satisfying.
—Rafer Guzmán Los Angeles Times
- 3
To be fair, the audience we saw this with were whooping and hollering thru the whole thing, even if this self-proclaimed "homage to the classic mob films of the 80's" goes nowhere and in the end makes absolutely no sense.
—Pete Hammond Maxim
- 3
...pointless, gratuitously violent, and stupid, stupid, stupid...
—Pam Grady Reel
- 3
...a laughable low-budget mess about third-rate drug thugs, put together with the sheen and polish of a fourth-grade Christmas pageant. Except with really loud reggaeton.
—N.V. Cooper E!