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OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh |
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| "More a fascinating curiosity than a satisfying movie experience." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Betty Jo Tucker |
A | "This is a film strictly for audiences that love going to the movies.
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| FilmJerk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
3/4 | "An Art Deco fantasia imagined by a gadget-obsessed 12-year-old, Sky Captain scarcely bothers with plot, instead streaking straight into the atmosphere." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Chris Barsanti |
4.5/5 | "not just the best sci-fi flick since Minority Report, it’s also one of the best films of the year, making wannabe event movies like Spider-Man 2 look like chump change." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Christopher Null |
| "If the glorious surprise offered up by Wizard of Oz was depicting a world beyond material reality,the agreeable gimmick of Sky Captain is its imitation of what's come before." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
68/100 | "Walks the walk, but can't talk the talk." |
| Cinemania |
| Dan Jardine |
68/100 | "Walks the walk but cannot talk the talk" |
| Apollo Guide |
| Dan Jardine |
4/5 | "This is a movie boiling over with its own positive energy, its own sense of boy-howdy fun." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
A+ | "The mythology of “Star Wars” with the stylized flair of 1940s film noir, digitally dreamed and superbly acted. Say hello to what could be the best film of 2004." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
3/4 | "An enjoyable and visually dashing computer-generated exercise." |
| Movie Boeuf |
| David N. Butterworth |
C | "The robotic acting is a reminder of how stiff the acting was in those throwback serial chapter
films." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
7/10 | "delightfully anachronistic piece of digital mastery" |
| Draxblog Movie Reviews |
| Dragan Antulov |
3.5/4 | "An utterly mesmerizing, boundlessly imaginative achievement, perhaps -- and I do not use such terms lightly -- the most visually astounding motion picture ever made." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
B+ | "When all of the movie's elements are working together -- the familiar characters and story, and the eye-catching special effects -- it's a wonderfully entertaining ride." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
A- | "There isn't a frame that I wouldn't pay good money to hang on my wall." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
3/4 | "...dashing and daring...visually rich in its presentation...cleverly combines the elements of surrealistic cinema that pads the excitement of this polished fanboy flick" |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
C+ | "A piece of visual wizardry...[but] more Rocketeer than Indiana Jones, more admirable exercise than actual fun." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
1/5 | "This sci-fi thriller eschews fun for worship of old movies; it's a clinker from start to finish." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
B+ | "Both a throwback and a leap forward, an odd yet satisfying marriage of now and then." |
| Mixed Reviews |
| Gabriel Shanks |
3/4 | "Generally speaking, I'm not a big fan of style-over- substance movies, but this one is so gorgeous that it's possible to become literally lost in the richness of the images." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3.5/4 | "an imminently likable action-adventure throwback that reflects the saucy give-and-take of old movies as much as it does their visual schemes" |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
3/4 | "Though this movie will pave the way technologically, hopefully, the next movie that uses CGI this extensively will also have a gripping story to go along with it." |
| Sci-Fi Movie Page |
| James O'Ehley |
4/5 | "Writer-director Kerry Conran goes forward to the past in a breezy, easy adventure with Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow along for the ride." |
| Netflix |
| James Rocchi |
3/4 | "the visuals are phenomenal, rendered with so much love and passion that each frame is a marvel just to behold." |
| Perihelion Journal |
| Jay Antani |
3/4 | " A chimeric big-screen extravaganza that’s refreshingly unique." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
8/10 | "Loaded with unrealized potential, but that potential comes in the form of some great technical work, which itself is worth the time to view." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
8/10 | "...this movie entertained me from beginning until the end..." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
4/5 | "It’s like a little bubble of an art project, simultaneously being an interesting experiment in a medium but also being an effective piece of art itself." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
3.0/4.0 | "... sure-fire cult hit regardless of the final box office tally." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
1.5/5 | "It was just so busy trying to be an homage that it didn’t bother to spend any time on characters and good story." |
| 7M Pictures |
| Kevin Carr |
2/4 | "Requires much suspension of disbelief on the audience’s part, but the story is not involving enough for us to ever forget we’re watching a movie." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
3.5/5 | "Una maravillosa muestra de ficción, un exquisito viaje al futuro a través del pasado y una dósis de entretenimiento puro." |
| Cinenganos |
| Luis Martinez |
4/5 | "It's a dream of a movie from which a certain kind of movie lover will never want to awake." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
B | "Kerry Conran imagines an adventure cobbled together from serials, comic books, and radio dramas of the 30s and 40s, making something derivative yet unique." |
| Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema |
| Mark Pfeiffer |
7/10 | "The Art Deco future as it was seen from the late 1930s is the background for this super-paced sci-fi adventure. The plot is just a chain of action sequences." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
| "Surface appearances are the beginning and the end of Sky Captain... astonishingly vapid and stupefyingly boring..." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3.5/4 | "Style alone isn’t enough to make a movie good, but it can add an atmosphere of fun and imagination that sweeps you into the story. For me, that’s exactly what happens here." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B+ | "The scenes are superbly imaginative and yet so real that they feel half-remembered." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
| "The epitome of CGI’s best and worst attributes." |
| Lessons of Darkness |
| Nick Schager |
5/5 | "Merece ser visto mais de uma vez (no cinema!) para que possamos apreciar os detalhes espalhados pelos quatro cantos da tela." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
3.5/5 | "Occasionally threatens to collapse under the weight of its own production, but all in all it's an exhilarating experience, and raises the bar for the use of digital technology in film." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
3.5/5 | "Occasionally threatens to collapse under the weight of its own production, but all in all it's an exhilarating experience, and raises the bar for the use of digital technology in film." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
| "Purely on a technological level, 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' is one of the most startling and stunning movies of the year." |
| Critic Doctor |
| Peter Sobczynski |
2.5/5 | "Great performances (especially Angelina Jolie) and endless CGI trickery barely conceals a sloppy screenplay that lacks a single original idea." |
| Film Threat |
| Phil Hall |
4.5/5 | "A wonderful blend of sharp characters with running gags galore, outrageously inspired visual imagery and a plotline that feels both familiar and otherworldly." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
2/5 | "If there's any sensibility within the film other than a voracious geeky adoration of cliffhangers, I wasn't able to locate it." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
B+ | "[It] reminds us how much fun the movies are supposed to be." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
B | "This is as much of a breakthrough film as 'Tron' was." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
C+ | "Sure, this is comic book stuff, but that doesn’t mean that the actors
should be saddled with wooden dialog and two-dimensional characters." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
4.5/5 | "It's a fast-paced, genre-referential, movie-reverential, dazzlingly beautiful and giddily enjoyable concoction." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Scott Weinberg |
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OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh |
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