 Conversely, the "San Francisco Chronicle" gave the film a positive review, saying it "succeeds as a well-made evocation of a subculture, though director Dirk Shafer's uncontainable enthusiasm for the world he's exposing blunts his movie's edge".Although calling some of the sequences "banal" and "boring", the "Chronicle" praises Drahos and Khabbazi's acting and states that "here and there something happens that's jaw dropping".