The film is worthwhile primarily for the fun, breezy first hour. After that, it's a case of watching to find out how things turn out.Read Full Review »
70
Village Voice: Scott Foundas
Whereas most of the injustices suffered by "Nanny's" nanny are of the skin-deep variety, the hopelessly reductive Fierce People ups the ante.Read Full Review »
60
The New York Times: Stephen Holden
When F. Scott Fitzgerald remarked that the rich “are different from you and me,” he might have been thinking of someone like the moody billionaire from Fierce People.Read Full Review »
50
Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
The platitudes in this gratuitously sentimental movie are taken a lot more seriously than the people.Read Full Review »
50
Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
When the tone goes from daffy to dour in the course of a harrowing plot point, the story becomes more forced than fierce.Read Full Review »
50
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Robert Abele
Dunne and Wittenborn, who adapted his book, work too hard at stressing just how ruthless the unspoken standards of the stinking rich can be, leading to a story-pivoting act of brutality toward Finn that careens the movie into a tonal wilderness that it never recovers from.Read Full Review »
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