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Against All Odds

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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Drama | Noir | Romance | Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Eric Hughes
Daniel Mainwaring (1947 screenplays)
Directed by: Taylor Hackford
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 2, 1984
DVD: December 14, 1999
Running Time: 128 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R
Starring Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Alex Karras, and Jane Greer
Terry Brogan (Bridges), a football player who is fired from the team, is recruited by an old friend (Woods) to track down a girlfriend in Mexico.
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What The Critics Said
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The New York Times Janet Maslin
Against All Odds is so lively and enjoyable on its own terms that its genre problems, while real, are easily overlooked. Mr. Hackford's brand of glossy, romantic escapism doesn't have to work as an homage. It has a vitality of its own.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
There is a lot of plot in this movie - probably too much. The best thing to do is to accept the plot, and then disregard it, and pay attention to the scenes of passion. They really work.
Read Full Review >Variety Staff (Not Credited)
If not for a somewhat murky and misanthropic ending, Against All Odds would stand as a well-engineered second-try at 1947's "Out of the Past."
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
It begins promisingly.... But the film has no center, succumbs to drift, and gets away from Hackford. [03 Mar 1984]
Wall Street Journal Julie Salamon
The story wanders unconvincingly and tediously into corporate law offices and big, splashy nightclubs. Still, Mr. Hackford has the documentary maker's eye for realistic detail, so it all looks right. [01 Mar 1984]
Empire Ian Nathan
This is about as noir as Pete’s Dragon, best to accept its superficiality as a boon - Hackford, at least, gives it a slick exterior - and enjoy it is a vacuous thriller and extended Phil Collins video.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Dave Kehr
Little remains of the original but its weakest element - its overelaborate intrigue - and Hackford seems only to scramble it further.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)
Not even a bravura performance from Woods, some steamy love scenes between Bridges and Ward, and a thrilling daylight car chase down Sunset Boulevard can pull this confusing remake out of the doldrums.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
The film is a howler of illogical, overwrought emotion, inexplicable actions and sudden bursts of bloody violence. [03 Mar 1984]
Time Richard Schickel
The result is a flat, dumbly brutal movie, full of overplotted complexity and empty of all emotional resonance, except that provided by the presence of Jane Greer (the original film's dark lady, here doing a supporting role) and Richard Widmark.
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