"Helmer-scribe Temelkuran has crafted characters who carry around ghosts of their lost potential, lending them an odd multidimensionality. His thesps appear effectively enervated so that any break from inertia registers as unnatural and shocking in its violence. But given the production's low-budget look and reliance on long talkathons with a paucity of movement, the radical bleeding out of the image (perhaps meant to evoke what Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil) flattens the pic's impact, reflecting more on the impoverishment of the film than of the characters' milieu. Admittedly, though, the pallid tones allow director Temelkuran to theatrically close the film on a colorful, sardonic note." Ronnie Schieb, Variety, 2009.