Roskam brings a capturing story of adrenaline, love, passion and crime. You get drawn into this movie, not in the least by the excellent camera work. However, in the second half of the movie, it seems as if Roskam is trying to adress too many themes at once. In my opinion, he should have stuck with the simplicity of the main story.

We're never given any reason to feel. Perhaps that's why you care more for the inanimate 911 Carrera -- praying it will never crash -- than you do the horndog lovebirds occupying its two front seats.

There are a handful too many moments when the film sags or snags to call it great, but when its firing on all cylinders, it's blazing.

While it doesn't connect in the profound manner Roskam is hoping for, the rest of the film salvages the viewing experience, which captures the velocity of attraction and the sting of dishonesty quite well.

Perhaps a bit too dark for its own good... It's a slickly produced film that's unafraid to combine a full-out heist sequence with some very grim emotions.

The work by the two leads is consistently committed, not to mention oozing with old fashioned movie-star charisma.

[There's an] ardent, almost minimalist romanticism that emerges. [Full Review in Spanish]

With its full emphatic score, mainstream genre fusion (tragic romance / crime drama), and enraptured gazing at movie stars, The Racer and the Jailbird is clearly going for Movie-Movie scale

Against the odds, it's a love affair for the ages, and the two charismatic leads successfully bring a haunting telepathy to their affair.

Worth catching for the action sequences and the brilliant performances alone, but just don't expect a coherent story to go with its otherwise faultless direction.

Though Roskam and Schoenaarts eventually hit the mark, Racer and the Jailbird provides little more than superficial entertainment.

If you're in a romantic frame of mind, 'Racer and the Jailbird' delivers so wholly on that front that it goes a fair way toward compensating for the film's deficiencies elsewhere.