Morse and Monteith garnered praise for their respective performances. Berkshire gave credit to Monteith's "against-type" performance for delivering "tough and vulnerable in all the right ways," while Seitz said that Morse "lends the material more dignity and heft than it deserves". Jordan Hoffman, writing for the "New York Daily News", gave praise to both Morse and Monteith's performances but said, "[I]t's a shame the script doesn't offer anything beyond loose-cannon-cop cliches." "The New York Times" Neil Genzlinger said the film would've been a bit better with more appearances from Monteith's character than Morse's, despite being in a plot filled with "cop movie clichés" and confusing its take on 'show, don't tell' as "cryptically suspenseful". "Variety"s Andrew Barker also lauded praise to Monteith for giving a "very solid, professional" delivery of a "basic, straightforward" role and highlighted both Hinds and Morse's performances as well, but criticized the film overall for being a "drably derivative, infuriatingly improbable police drama." Paul MacInnes of "The Guardian" wrote, "[Cory] Monteith's final onscreen performance has grabbed all the attention, but this solid cop thriller has its own impressive lead in David Morse".