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10/18/08
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
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Reviews Counted:197
Fresh:142
Rotten:55
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is slim on plot and characterization, but the visuals more than make up for it.
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $37,747,092
Synopsis: In writer-director Kerry Conran's debut film, ace pilot Joe "Sky Captain" Sullivan (Jude Law) reluctantly teams up with his former flame, journalist Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow), to uncover the... [More]
Starring: Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi
Director: Kerry Conran
Reviews for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
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04/29/09
"Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow" is a war movie without subtext. Its deliberate lack of moral coding and pandering effort to please audiences with a vintage cotton candy pulp that never was is more than a little insulting. At least it has Angelina
04/18/09
What made anyone believe this was a movie worth making or that there would be an audience for it?
04/17/09
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08/07/08
If there's any sensibility within the film other than a voracious geeky adoration of cliffhangers, I wasn't able to locate it.
10/31/07
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07/14/07
This debut feature by Kerry Conran is a triumph not only for its technical mastery but for its good taste.
06/08/07
It's the story that gets in the wayof this magic show, coasting along a much more awkward path that finally hardly seems to matter.
03/31/07
Director Kerry Conran hasn't just mimicked his favorite serials and comic books. He's written a love letter to the full scope of 1930s and '40s films by basically making one.
10/11/06
the visuals are phenomenal, rendered with so much love and passion that each frame is a marvel just to behold.
09/20/06
For its writer-director, Sky Captain was a labour of love. For almost everyone else -- including the wooden cast -- it’s just a labour.
04/01/06
Top CriticThe clincher is how the actors are reduced to puppets and ciphers; Paltrow straight-jacketed in her Hildy Johnson-style two-piece and the evidently bored Law reduced throughout half the movie to giving the gimlet eye through flying goggles.
02/09/06
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.
12/06/05
...takes the audience to the Shangra La of Lost Horizons, the undersea world of... 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and straight to King Kong’s Skull Island.
07/25/05
delightfully anachronistic piece of digital mastery
06/26/05
The epitome of CGI’s best and worst attributes.
05/04/05
Kerry Conran imagines an adventure cobbled together from serials, comic books, and radio dramas of the 30s and 40s, making something derivative yet unique.
04/14/05
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