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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe final act hits like a gut-punch. Worst fears are confirmed, and the protagonist faces a moral dilemma no father should have to confront. Kormakur and his writers give their protagonist no easy way out.
- 70Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinIt takes a while to get there, but Inhale eventually emerges as a tense and morally complex thriller with a devastating twist.
- 55MovielineMichelle OrangeMovielineMichelle OrangeLike the recent and only slightly less fantastical "Never Let Me Go," Inhale manages little more than a gesture toward untying its bundled moral knots.
- 40VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibIcelandic helmer Baltasar Kormakur ("101 Reykjavik," "Jar City") injects notes of hysteria into the script's frenetic pileup of gratuitous cliches, as Dermot Mulroney pushes his square-jawed, desperate hero to near-masochistic extremes.
- 40Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternYou keep rooting for the child to get a new pair of lungs, but all of the beatings, betrayals and bitter ironies leave a bad taste in your head.
- 30The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenInhale is a creepy medical thriller in the tradition of "Coma" that amps up the tension and suspense by slicing up time.
- 25The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasIt's neither remotely convincing as true-to-life drama or lurid and propulsive enough to work as exploitation. It's just bad.
- 20Village VoiceVillage VoiceRipped 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.
- 20Time OutNick SchagerTime OutNick SchagerEven with the grungy aesthetics and earnest preaching, Inhale is really nothing but crass topical exploitation, milking this social issue for every salacious drop.