Brian Webster: Eye of the Needle. In: apolloguide.com. Archiviert vom Original am 8. Oktober 2007; abgerufen am 26. September 2017 (englisch): „Eye of the Needle is a tense thriller that takes its time in building tension before exploding during its frenzied conclusion. […] This is all believable and Sutherland’s laconic acting style is well suited to the character of Faber, a careful, circumspect and vicious man.“
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Roger Ebert in der Chicago Sun-Times „Some people will find the movie slow going. I preferred to think of it as deliberate. It is effective, I think, to develop a plot like this at a deliberate pace, instead of rushing headlong through it. That gives us time to meditate on the character of the Needle, and to ponder his very few, enigmatic references to his own behavior.“
Brian Webster: Eye of the Needle. In: apolloguide.com. Archiviert vom Original am 8. Oktober 2007; abgerufen am 26. September 2017 (englisch): „Eye of the Needle is a tense thriller that takes its time in building tension before exploding during its frenzied conclusion. […] This is all believable and Sutherland’s laconic acting style is well suited to the character of Faber, a careful, circumspect and vicious man.“
