 Michael Wilmington of the "Los Angeles Times" wrote that the film seemed like Stallone's response to Schwarzenegger's turn to comedies like "Kindergarten Cop" and added, "This is another 'high-concept' marketing hook job—a slick, slow-witted, shiny, 100% predictable movie—and the scriptwriters ... don't have anything richer on their minds than the usual feisty mother-son gags.