 Crawling forward he eventually meets a woman and they try to piece together their past lives.Keith Uhlich from "Slant Magazine" awarded the film three and a half out of four stars, writing, "Many directors would no doubt take a god’s-eye perspective of "Haze"'s hero, but Tsukamoto favors an intimate camera style that offsets the genre film sturm und drang and grounds his movie in a terrifyingly mortal perspective.