75
Metascore
20 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovGilliam keeps the audience guessing, and in doing so creates a startlingly effective rumination on the nature of sanity and madness cloaked in the shroud of a sci-fi thriller.
- 100Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittBruce Willis is bruisingly good as the hero and Brad Pitt is suitably zany as the activist who dogs his trail.
- 100Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversGilliam, along with the gifted cinematographer Roger Pratt and production designer Jeffrey Beecroft, fashions a disturbing and dazzling lost world.
- 90The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinFierce and disturbing, with a plot that skillfully resists following any familiar course. The film's hero fears that he's half-crazy, and for two hours Mr. Gilliam artfully keeps his audience feeling the same way.
- 88The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenFor all his daring, the brazen creator maintains control - there's aesthetic order in the disorder, and calculated reason in the madness. Seldom has it felt so good to seem so lost.
- 88ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliIt's refreshing to encounter a movie with a logical, intelligent approach to the dangers of zipping through time.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAs the jabbering psychotic Jeffrey Goines, Brad Pitt has a rabid, get-a-load-of-me deviousness that works for the film's central mystery: We can't tell where the fanatic leaves off and the put-on artist begins.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAny laughs that it inspires will be very hollow. It's more of a celebration of madness and doom, with a hero who tries to prevail against the chaos of his condition, and is inadequate.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranMystifying, intriguing, even infuriating, it shows what happens when an unconventional talent meets straightforward material.
- 60Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumBrad Pitt has fun with his secondary part as a pontificating lunatic, but I wish I'd enjoyed the rest of the cast more.