She remarked that the storyline was an ``elaborate and relentless chase that takes those involved into primal psychological terrain.'' Stephen Holden writing in The New York Times applauded some of the realism displayed in the film, commenting, ``Nothing in the rest of the film comes close to matching the impact of Gideon's carving the bullet from _his_ arm with his hunting knife, then cauterizing the wound while emitting agonizing howls. <sep>, Pronoun: his