"Roger Hurlburt of the "Sun-Sentinel" also gave "Wired" a 1½-star rating, writing that "we have director Larry Peerce thinking he's Frank Capra doing "It's a Wonderful Life", or worse, Charles Dickens reworking "A Christmas Carol"... As a film that relies on mystical scenes to join together fact, plus appearing and disappearing characters scattered among confusing time sequences, "Wired" is a movie of overkill.The fact is, Belushi becomes more unlikable, more idiotic and more pathetically self-destructive as the film progresses."