Puig felt that the killing scenes have been as well drawn out, noting the strategy was down to heighten the outcome, but in fact arrives throughout extra as "repugnant and fetishized violence". Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News was in agreement with Puig when he referred to the film as "abdomen-churningly anti-human" for the reason that of its violence, and questioned why Goldwyn and Potter even signed on to the film.