Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
73 %
Reviews Counted: 195 Fresh: 142 Rotten:53 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
Theatrical Release: Sep 17, 2004 Wide
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 mystery behind a group of missing scientists and a series of shocking robot attacks. Aided... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Bai Ling
Director: Kerry Conran
Screenwriter: Kerry Conran
Producer: Sadie Frost, Jon Avnet
Composer: Edward Shearmur
Screenwriter: Kerry Conran
Producer: Sadie Frost, Jon Avnet
Composer: Edward Shearmur
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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
This debut feature by Kerry Conran is a triumph not only for its technical mastery but for its good taste.
06/08/07
Top Critic
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
The 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
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01/17/06
Top Critic
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
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
The second half of Sky Captain is one of the more purely entertaining films I've seen this year.
03/05/05
Top Critic
This is a movie boiling over with its own positive energy, its own sense of boy-howdy fun.
01/24/05
Conran is ... in touch with his inner 10-year-old. His feature-length debut seems like it has been downloaded directly from a kid's wildest dreams.
12/31/04
This isn't a film that one would expect depth, and the cliches are fun and anticipated.
12/19/04
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