The film is one of Loach's least-popular films, being referred to as "a heavy-handed and absurd political drama" in MIT's newspaper The Tech and Loach said in a 2016 Guardian interview that he "made a mess" of the film.
The film is considered one of Loach's least popular works, being labeled as "overly didactic and nonsensical political drama" in The Tech newspaper at MIT and the director himself admitted to making a mess of it in a 2016 Guardian interview.