As if realizing that his star hasn't smiled for 15 minutes, Donaldson tacks on a goody-goody ending that would shame the Care Bears. How to sum up what went wrong? Cruise has a line in the movie: "Flat beer from rusty pipes."

| Feb 26, 2019

Cocktail is a bottle of rotgut in a Dom Perignon box.

| May 21, 2013

The pairing of old-hand Brown and young-hand Cruise may have been meant to remind us of Cruise and Paul Newman; if so, think of this as The Color of Counterfeit Money.

| May 21, 2013

It may not be a megaton bomb, but Cocktail is definitely of the Molotov type.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 21, 2013

Very, very stupid.

| May 21, 2013

Cruise oozes as much charm as in Top Gun and The Colour of Money, but the mix of bar-acrobatics and Caribbean love isn't anywhere near strong enough to get you drunk.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 21, 2013

Cruise is beguiling with his smile and his swagger, but the script doesn't take us anywhere fresh when it leaves the barroom.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 21, 2013

This vacant, misshapen film is basically an extended beer commercial that presents the world as a ludicrous place populated by sex-and-cash-and-booze-crazed zomboids. Cruise, meanwhile, comes off as a somewhat taller Spuds MacKenzie.

| May 21, 2013

Cocktail is a meandering, shapeless film, without the force of character to resist any of the cliches that come its way.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 21, 2013

Contains nary a surprise.

| Mar 26, 2009

If a visitor from Mars needed a crash course in sexism, this would serve.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 29, 2003

It is an inane romantic drama that only a very young, very naive bartender could love. How it got that way is difficult to understand.

| May 20, 2003

Cocktail is mud in your eye.

| Jan 1, 2000

The more you think about what really happens in Cocktail, the more you realize how empty and fabricated it really is.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000