The oh-so-virtual reality of it all is purely mindless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 23, 2020

The script suffers from sloppy dialogue ("alert the amphibious squadron!") and plotting (a very vague Macguffin, risible exposition, two suspenseless countdown finales). But flimsy characterisation is the biggest problem ...

| Jun 18, 2012

Lots for both kids and adults to enjoy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010

he visuals are phenomenal, rendered with so much love and passion that each frame is a marvel just to behold.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2010

It's innocent, wholesome fun with a lot of brains to it that kids and adults will love...

| Apr 29, 2009

"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

| Original Score: C- | Apr 18, 2009

What made anyone believe this was a movie worth making or that there would be an audience for it?

| Apr 17, 2009

Filled with style with a capital S, Sky Captain is a joyous combo of rollicking adventure, film noir and all the gee-whizzery of high-tech innovation.

| Oct 18, 2008

Pure escapism saturates every frame of this exhilarating throwback to 1930s matinee serials.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

If there's any sensibility within the film other than a voracious geeky adoration of cliffhangers, I wasn't able to locate it.

| Original Score: D | Oct 31, 2007

It's obvious even from the character names that Mr. Conran has a good grasp on his source material. The problem is, he doesn't do anything with it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

This debut feature by Kerry Conran is a triumph not only for its technical mastery but for its good taste.

| Jun 8, 2007

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.

Full Review | Mar 31, 2007

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 11, 2006

For its writer-director, Sky Captain was a labour of love. For almost everyone else -- including the wooden cast -- it's just a labour.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2006

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.

| Feb 9, 2006

It should feel like Star Wars, yet it fails to feel like a movie at all. Conran has done his work almost too well. It's as if you're sitting in front of an outsize comic book with a speed reader as page-turner.

| Jan 17, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

...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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2005

delightfully anachronistic piece of digital mastery

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 26, 2005