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4 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenLos Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenThe storytelling has all the dramatic complexity of a paint-by-numbers set, and you know exactly where all this is headed from the get-go.
- 30Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovThe Indonesian-born brother/sister filmmaking duo of Ken and Livi Zheng scores high points for creating a new take on the undocumented-immigrant badass story (hola, Machete), and for their obvious martial arts skills, but this first feature from the pair is ultimately hobbled by a paucity of credible acting.
- 20The New York TimesAnita GatesThe New York TimesAnita GatesAlthough the characters repeatedly express their worship of “original art” in gilded frames, the script consists of singularly unoriginal dialogue.
- 10Village VoiceSimon AbramsVillage VoiceSimon AbramsAlmost nothing makes sense in Brush With Danger, a bewilderingly incompetent and inexplicably racist Indonesian action film.