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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.

What The Critics Said

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80

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.

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75

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.

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70

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."

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50

Boston Globe Jay Carr

It begins promisingly.... But the film has no center, succumbs to drift, and gets away from Hackford. [03 Mar 1984]

40

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]

40

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.

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30

Chicago Reader Dave Kehr

Little remains of the original but its weakest element - its overelaborate intrigue - and Hackford seems only to scramble it further.

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25

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.

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25

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]

20

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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