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Johnny Got His Gun
Metascore
41 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
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  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    70
    Ably filmed by veteran stage producer-director Rowan Joseph, Bradley Rand Smith's theatrical script provides a bravura thespian workout for Ben McKenzie.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    50
    Reveals itself to be far too stagebound to function effectively onscreen.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Walter Addiego
    50
    That's the real problem with this melodrama. Whether or not you agree with the pacifist message, the presentation is often overwrought and maudlin.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Vadim Rizov
    50
    Filmed theater is an inherently dubious genre, and Johnny Got His Gun is little more than a good performance of dated material.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Laura Kern
    50
    As his character battles to grasp his newly fractured sense of time, audiences may also find themselves more aware of the time, which seems to creep along at an alarmingly slow rate.
  6. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    40
    As we find ourselves again immersed in a time of war, Trumbo's ageless story offers a useful corollary.
  7. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    40
    Trumbo's aim was a kind of proletarian poetry, but McKenzie's broad emoting has the deadly earnestness of a school play.
  8. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    25
    Watching the film, I did manage to retain my empathy for the narrator, though: I was as desperate as he was to escape the situation I was in.
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