Inhale: Critic Reviews

67%

MovieWeb: 1 reviews

41%

RottenTomatoes: 20 reviews

Stephen Holden New York Times (Top Critic)

50

Filmed in a semi-documentary style, it fitfully aspires to moral seriousness.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Eric Hynes Village Voice (Top Critic)

Ripped from the headlines and sensationalized for your would-be pleasure, Inhale uses the appalling phenomenon of illegal organ trafficking as the basis for an almost-as-appalling hyperventilated thriller.
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Joe Neumaier New York Daily News (Top Critic)

60

The film soon traffics in "Babel"-style cultural crises and melodrama. Still, as a tale of parental desperation and the cost of conscience, "Inhale" comes from a thought-provoking place.
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Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal (Top Critic)

All of the beatings, betrayals and bitter ironies leave a bad taste in your head.
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Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

60

You will go away with your heart full and your eyes wide open.
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Ronnie Scheib Variety (Top Critic)

Walter Doty III and John Clafin's hackneyed script depicts Mexico as one vast, interconnected conspiracy engaged in the underground organ trade, whose highest-ranked traffickers are -- gasp! -- Americans.
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Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

25

Milks the very real problem of "organ tourism" for all the melodrama and car chases it's worth.
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Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

The final act hits like a gut-punch.
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Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

60

It takes a while to get there, but Inhale eventually emerges as a tense and morally complex thriller with a devastating twist.
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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

75

...an inherently compelling premise...
Full Review » 1 year ago
John Esther UR Chicago Magazine

An action packed film increasingly offering more and larger dilemmas, director Baltasar Kormakur's film sets itself off for one big payoff...
Full Review » 1 year ago
Annlee Ellingson Moving Pictures Magazine

The film's final moments are still a sock to the gut, but the central dilemma would have been more acute had some of the details been left to imagination.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru

43

A pedestrian thriller that suffers from implausibility, an overbearing musical score and excessive style over substance.
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Michelle Orange Movieline

Inhale manages little more than a gesture toward untying its bundled moral knots.
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David Noh Film Journal International

Well-done, exciting and intelligent, that rare thriller with a mind and purpose.
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Scott Tobias AV Club

17

It's neither remotely convincing as true-to-life drama or lurid and propulsive enough to work as exploitation. It's just bad.
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Geoff Berkshire Metromix.com

40

How Robert Rodriguez's Machete might have looked played with a straight face ... a silly exploitation thriller that confuses itself for an artful message movie.
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Marshall Fine Hollywood & Fine

The idea that one ignorant tourist could stumble into this many wasp's nests in a couple days - and emerge alive - is particularly hard to swallow.
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Nick Schager Time Out New York

20

Illegal organ trafficking is undeniably serious; this tawdry message movie about the subject, however, most unequivocally isn't.
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Harvey S. Karten Compuserve

75

Effectively horrific tale of the illegal organ transplants business.
Full Review » 2 years ago