On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 7%, based on reviews from 30 critics, with an average rating of 2.34/10. The site's consensus states: "Leslie Nielsen's affability can't save this dunderheaded update of "Mr. Magoo", which delivers a stream of slapstick gags so lame that audiences will feel like they've stepped on a rake." Some critics noted that the film included a disclaimer at the end stating that it was not meant to be an accurate portrayal of near-sighted or blind people. On "Siskel and Ebert", both critics gave the film a thumbs down. They both claimed that the disclaimer was funnier than anything in the movie, and thought it was unnecessary and that the film was not offensive towards near-sighted people. Roger Ebert, giving it a half-star out of four in his newspaper review, also called the film "transcendently bad. It soars above ordinary badness as the eagle outreaches the fly."