They felt that Morgan Freeman's narration was unnecessary, and that the first half was "great" but the second half "became filled with clichés, riddled with holes, and tainted by Tim Robbins".
Szerintük Morgan Freeman narrációja felesleges, s míg a film első fele „remek”, addig a második „hemzseg a kliséktől, tele van lyukakkal, Tim Robbins pedig elrontja.”