"The film has a TV-movie cheesiness overruled by Fuller's expert deployment of the camera, brisk pacing and committed performances – particularly Paul Winfield as the African-American trainer who devotes himself to reversing the animal's indoctrination... the picture's single-minded pursuit of its central idea: how prejudice of any stripe is uncontainable, altering the shape of the entire world, but perhaps not irrevocable. (That's a question that the movie leaves dangling.)" - Ryan Gilbey, New Statesman