The reviews linked to here
are actually much more positive than most of the ones that came out on
the film's initial release.
| "some notable assets, chiefly Ford’s masterful, on-target performance,
his best work yet, as the brutally domineering Allie, but the narrative
is too lopsided and the characters (except for Allie) too underdeveloped
to compel attention." - MrShowbiz
"There are wonderful moments in Peter Weir's film of the Paul Theroux
novel 'The Mosquito Coast', but most of them take place during the first
hour." - John
Hartl
"A flawed film... However, an impressive performance by Harrison Ford is enough to make THE MOSQUITO COAST very entertaining" - Bob Banka |
"a brilliant performance - so effective, indeed, that we can hardly
stand to spend two hours in the company of this consummate jerk." - Roger
Ebert
"Weir's direction sustains some modest tension... but it's obvious that
personal inspiration is in critically short supply." - Pat
Graham
"I won't call it a classic but it's definitely a very strong piece that still works powerfully" - Colin Jacobson (DVD MovieGuide) |
"Utterly compelling, novelistic saga... A serious an emotionally gripping
film." - Leonard
Maltin
"the only movie you'll see this season that has too much ambition for
its own good." - Paul
Attanasio
"It is hard to believe that a film as beautiful as The Mosquito Coast can also be so bleak, but therein lies its power and undoing" - Variety "an easy film to admire, but a hard one to like" - AudioRevolution |
"An ambitious treatise on man's psyche and his desire to get back to
nature." - Find-A-Video
"'Mosquito Coast' is stripped of its significance and deteriorates into
an epic spoofed - Rita
Kempley
"I've never seen Ford more comfortable in a role before or since" - Chad-Michael Simon "Harrison Ford gives a strong and inspired performance; yet, it is so forceful and unrelenting under Weir's atonal direction that it has capsized the whole film" - Duane Byrge |
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