For its writer-director, Sky Captain was a labour of love. For almost everyone else -- including the wooden cast -- it’s just a labour.
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04/01/06
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
73 %
Reviews Counted: 194 Fresh: 141 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
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
Reviews
Top Critic
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
Top Critic
The picture seems reverse-engineered, as if, having conceived his spectacular milieu, Conran created monsters to populate it, then heroes for them to fight, then reasons for the heroes to be there, with emotional plausibility some way behind that.
11/02/04
Exciting, beautifully designed, retro adventure flick that’s a treat for fans of old movies and pulpy sci-fi serials.
10/06/04
Alas, the finest technology money can buy can't disguise basic flaws in plotting and structure, and flatly written, blandly heroic protagonists.
10/06/04
Top Critic
A wonderful blend of sharp characters with running gags galore, outrageously inspired visual imagery and a plotline that feels both familiar and otherworldly.
09/19/04
Fabulous stuff. Technologically fascinating, earnestly enjoyable and rewarding in its sincere sense of homage to earlier fiction and design.
01/20/04
Top Critic
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
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
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01/17/06
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
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
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