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)
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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
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
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
Top CriticThe 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 CriticA 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
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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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10/18/08
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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
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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
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