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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 30Time OutTime OutIt provides the thinnest of excuses for rerunning the 'dramas' of the night before, but it doesn't do anything to salvage the venerable formula.
- 30The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinMr. Allen, who directed Beyond the Poseidon Adventure and produced it too, is so obviously ill-equipped to stage action scenes in cramped quarters that his audience winds up wishing as fervently as his characters for a chance to see the light of day.
- 30NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenIt is perhaps not presumptuous to take the blind man as the director's image of his ideal viewer, but here, I think, Allen becomes overly cautious. Had the man been blind and deaf, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure would have achieved the stature of a true masterpiece. [11 Jun 1979, p.99]
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWhat did we really, sincerely, expect anyway, from a movie in which Karl Malden plays a character named 'Wilbur,' and Slim Pickens plays a character named 'Tex'?
- 25TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThe whole thing is soggy cardboard.