 Both praised George Strait's performance, feeling that he was a convincing actor in the lead, especially considering the challenges of a singer becoming an actor, and they both enjoyed Isabel Glasser's performance, but felt the film was undermined by a hokey story, and no moments for satire which would have made the film better.Film critic Leonard Maltin, in his annual "Movie and Video Guide", also gave the film a mainly negative but somewhat mixed review, giving it two stars out of four and saying