Cooper's role as the policeman provides a different perspective on the father - son relationship, as well as sets up the final third act of the film, which takes place some fifteen years on after Avery Cross is first introduced. (digitalshortbread.com)
by Walter Chaw A punitive film that has one of the more unpleasant third acts of any film in recent memory, John McKay's Crush is an atonal estrogen opera that demonizes feminism while gifting the most sympathetic male of the piece with a nice vomit bath at his wedding. (filmfreakcentral.net)
It's anti-climax in the redux, I fear, as is the entire third act of a film that already suffered a little from a lack of inspiration — the delirious insouciant peril of the original is substituted for the peculiar clockwork of most modern actioners. (filmfreakcentral.net)