 The film bears a 10% freshness rating on the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes based on 30 reviews.Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.At the time of its release, Gene Siskel included the film in his "Worst of" list for 1994, singling out the melancholy tone of the film, and the quality of Seagal's dialogue.