[4][5] The film was critically panned and holds a 20% score on Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.

[7] Anita Gates of The New York Times wrote "One of the many strange things about this genre-confused film is that Alice and Ken, who are fictional siblings portrayed by real ones, never say where they’re from.

'"[8] Gates added that "the script consists of singularly unoriginal dialogue" and called the screenplay "colloquial".

[9] Simon Abrams of The Village Voice criticized the action scenes as "poorly choreographed" and that they "do nothing to extenuate the film's offensive characterizations".

[10] Michael Rechtshaffen of the Los Angeles Times praised the cinematography and said that while the storytelling was not sophisticated, the film was "undauntedly upbeat".