Its emotional core is hollow, the humor misses as often as it hits, and it leaves you with nothing new to think about.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 2, 2024

In The Greatest Beer Run Ever, [war] sort of is made for television. The filmmakers try to have their PBR-flavored cake and eat it too—and that just doesn’t fly in a movie about the lies and deception of mass murder that was Vietnam.

| Jul 16, 2024

Like the Pabst Blue Ribbon beer that it shills, The Greatest Beer Run Ever is a watered-down, unwelcome assault on the senses, unfit for consumption by anyone with working taste buds.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 3, 2024

In its two-hour runtime, the drama makes you chuckle and cry in equal measure, and all credits go to the writers for the characterisation of the protagonist, and to Zac Efron and Russell Crowe’s performances.

| Nov 20, 2023

Never mind that the Pabst Blue Ribbon Chickie carries throughout The Greatest Beer Run Ever has got to be the warmest in history. It symbolizes the character’s resolve and pride in what he believes is a nice gesture of goodwill.

| Jul 25, 2023

Farrelly's screenplays present characters as surface-level and Efron doesn't have the dramatic range to try and create a character out of an archetype.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 16, 2023

Further proof that Farrelly did better, more charming work when he ballasted his soft side with raunch.

| May 2, 2023

It’ll get you acquainted with a guy who didn’t think impossible was a thing. It’s a detached joy to watch a movie where a character does something you would never dare do, and later find out that it really happened.

| Original Score: B | Feb 9, 2023

The Greatest Beer Run Ever gets so close to being a good movie but is held back by weak dialogue and never quite just saying what it means to be saying about war, masculinity, politics, or otherwise.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jan 4, 2023

…has a jarring mix of tones to play with as it fuses comic macho braggadocio with the fog of war, but Peter Farrelly’s the right man for the job and just about pulls it off…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2023

Ultimately, The Greatest Beer Run Ever leaves a bit of a bad taste in your mouth. It doesn’t have anything meaningful to say about the war and offers a surface-level exploration of the character of Chickie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 19, 2022

What an unbelievable story, but truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction. Efron displays such an earnest quality that makes the character’s inherent foolishness endearing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2022

Farrelly seems to have thought Beer Run would float along on its frothy premise, punctuated by the occasional explosion of wartime violence. Instead, the film stumbles tipsily along, from lamp post to lamp post, uncertain of its way home.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2022

[It's] is fueled equally by its far-fetched silliness and its growing sense of sadness -- if not outrage -- over the war’s toll. Toss in a couple of fine supporting performances... and you’ve got a film that will stand up under repeated viewings.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 20, 2022

Imagine watching Born on the Fourth of July without the drama and Good Morning, Vietnam with the comedy and that roughly sums up this poorly calculated tale.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 16, 2022

It's sort of meandering and well-meaning, but the tone never quite settled on what it's supposed to be.

| Oct 14, 2022

Tonally shifty, overlong, repetitive and as history simplistic, but well-made and an interesting effort to reach across the aisle from the socially liberal to the socially conservative.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 13, 2022

Every potential moment of clarity is interrupted by a knee-jerk swerve to the inane, as if Farrelly is uncomfortable with anything resembling discomfort or ambiguity. It’s all very well-intentioned and good-natured, but to what end?

| Oct 13, 2022

Efron is very good in this movie that is undecided as to whether or not it is a comedy or a drama.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 11, 2022

In view of the absurd setting and the talent gathered, one expected more.

| Oct 11, 2022