Rolling Stone
"...A tension-packed thriller that will shake your head and rattle your brain..." 11/28/1996 p.141-2Entertainment Weekly
"...Clever and exciting moments....Intense work by [Gibson]..." 12/06/1996 pp.50-1 Variety
"A crackerjack thriller with some unusually tasty plot twists, RANSOM pays plenty of entertaining dividends....The storytelling is highly efficient... 11/04/1996 Los Angeles Times
"...A persuasive thriller..." 11/08/1996 p.F1 Chicago Sun-Times
"...Gibson gives an interesting performance, showing a man trying to think his way out of a crisis, and Sinise makes a good foil..." 11/08/1996 p.35 Premiere
"RANSOM is through and through Gibson's flick: dark, vengeful..." 05/01/2004 p.102 San Francisco Examiner 8 of 10
...taut and expertly directed... it's a clever plot developed partly from a 1956 Glenn Ford film of the same title, and extremely well-written... It's unusual to be treated to cogent, sensible dialogue... [Howard] is the heir to a generation of directors who diligently turned out honest crowd pleasers... - Barbara Shulgasser
Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
...a smarter-than-usual kidnapping thriller... Gibson gives an interesting performance, showing a man trying to think his way out of a crisis, and Sinise makes a good foil: Here are two smart men playing a game with deadly stakes... [Howard] chooses a large canvas, and fills it with interesting characters... - Roger Ebert
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