| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Roger Moore |
"A great story, but not a great movie." more... |
C |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"...a noble failure." more... |
C+ |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"Here is a war movie that understands how wars are actually fought." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Esposito |
"The action is brilliant, the combat sharp and rattling, and the film follows the historical record more closely than most Hollywood films." more... |
B |
| E! Online |
"...an unexciting misfire..." more... |
C+ |
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown |
"It's an exhausted sprawl with multiple story foci, none of them terribly compelling." more... |
D+ |
filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti |
"...has everything going for it and yet never quite makes it to the finish line." more... |
C |
Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden |
"...meticulous attention to period detail -- and almost none to compelling narrative." more... |
C- |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
" I hereby award the World War II drama The Great Raid a Cement Star for faithful and distinguished service to the cause of mediocrity." more... |
C- |
New York Times
Stephen Holden |
"...a tedious World War II epic..." more... |
D |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"The rousing success of the final 45 minutes cannot entirely counterbalance the stumbling uncertainty of the first 90 minutes." more... |
C+ |
San Francisco Chronicle
Joel Selvin |
"The story line is telegraphed from word one..." more... |
C |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...the kind of one-note war movie that Hollywood used to crank out by the dozens every year in the 1950s." more... |
B- |
USA Today
Mike Clark |
"How does this movie go so wrong over a 2 1/4-hour slog?" more... |
C- |
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