Never Get Outta the Boat is a 2002 American drama film directed by Paul Quinn, starring Lombardo Boyar, Darren E. Burrows, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Nick Gillie, Devon Gummersall, Harry Lennix, Alley Mills, Sebastian Roché and William Sanderson.
[2] Jay Boyar of the Orlando Sentinel wrote: "Its gritty, aggressively edgy atmosphere holds your attention as you begin to find yourself caring about these troubled men.
"[3] The St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote that the film "tells a familiar story uncommonly well" and praised the "fully human" characters.
[4] Cornelia de Bruin of the Chicago Reader wrote that while the film "succumbs to genre conventions", it is "buoyed by a strong ensemble".
[6] Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "ends up as guilty of posturing and manufacturing synthetic realities as those cliched productions from which it believes it is distancing itself", and criticised the cinematography, the "jittery" editing and the performances.