She remarked that the storyline was an ``elaborate and relentless chase that takes those involved into primal psychological terrain.'' Stephen Holden writing in The New York Times applauded some of the realism displayed in the film, commenting, ``Nothing in the rest of the film comes close to matching the impact of Gideon's carving the bullet from his arm with his hunting knife, then cauterizing the wound while emitting agonizing howls.
Stephen Holden
Gideon