AVClub: Put their backs against the wall, and most civilized people turn into selfish monsters, willing to cross any threshold to save their own hides. That, in any case, is what the movies would have us believe; there’s a whole subsection of thriller about ordinary people going to desperate, cold-blooded extremes to get out of a pinch. Body, the feature debut of writing, directing, and producing team Dan Berk and Robert Olsen, fits snugly into that cynical subgenre, depicting as it does a common cycle of scheming, bickering, and backstabbing following a calamitous mistake. The film is well-acted, slickly made on a shoestring budget, and blessedly efficient, with a runtime that inches just past the one-hour mark, credits included. It’s also nearly devoid of surprises, sending its characters through some Hitchcockian paces en route to an ending that’s more depressing for its predictability than its bleakness.
