"Rather flatly scripted, but a not uninteresting clash between moral tale and film noir. Powell […] is rescued by the exercise of a double standard (Scott pays for her murder, Powell gets away with his); but the film still contrives a troubled intimation that things ain't quite what they used to be in suburbia." – Rezension in Time Out Film Guide, Seventh Edition 1999. Penguin, London 1998, S. 700, online abgerufen am 17. Februar 2013.
