Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times stated that the film "is blatant in its borrowing from the more sensational headlines and naked in its manipulation of emotions to the susceptible," adding that "Gilbert is nothing if not consistent: the acting and the relentlessly risible dialogue are uniformly terrible."
According to film critic Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times, the movie is brazenly derivative of sensational news stories and manipulatively exploits emotions in those who are susceptible to such tactics. He also criticized Gilbert's performance and the film's dialogue as being uniformly poor.