Less convincing is Liman's visual gimmick of making the movie resemble an inelegant straight - to - video artifact of the VHS era; there's a yellowish cast to everything, the sickly glow of faded videotape. (seattleweekly.com)
[The Catch] mostly just feels tired, like a TNT caper show that futilely seeks to derive energy from visual gimmicks, like split screens and slo - mo. (metacritic.com)
The film is overloaded with immature visual gimmicks. (impulsegamer.com)