carina chocano of the "los angeles times" called it a "cheesy, familiar bore" and said it "feels at times like a third-rate bond movie set to a jimmy buffett album." chocano said "hudson is the best thing about the movie. she has a likable, grounded presence and sharp comic timing." nathan rabin of "the a.v. club" gave the film a "c+" and called it "the kind of thing people watch because it's the in-flight movie". rabin called the repeated mentions of finn's sexual prowess "a delightfully unnecessary move". rabin said the film "outstays its welcome by a good 20 minutes" and called it "extravagantly stupid", but that the film's strengths were the "photogenic locales, obscenely beautiful stars, a laid-back soundtrack" and an unwillingness to take itself seriously. lou lumenick said the ending was "surprisingly bloody" and brian lowry said the ending is "a little more violent than necessary" and "a bit grittier than it should be tonally, as if we've detoured into a different movie." simon braund of "empire" magazine gave the film one star out of five and called it "absolute tosh. a ridiculous, unerringly tedious plot is weighed down by listless performances from a cast who clearly wished they were somewhere else, despite the sumptuous location."