|

New This Week
Critics & Publications
Archives: A-Z Index
Advanced Search
Upcoming Release Calendar
Awards & Bests By Year
All-Time High Scores
All-Time Low Scores
How Metascores Are Calculated
Discuss Film In Our Forums

63
11th Hour, The
47
27 Dresses
29
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
39
Alvin and the Chipmunks
81
Bamako
84
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
47
Bella
68
Business of Being Born, The
69
Charlie Wilson's War
64
Cloverfield
30
Cover
68
Delirious
92
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The
43
Final Season, The
41
First Sunday
51
Golden Compass, The
49
Good Night, The
65
Great Debaters, The
63
Hannah Takes the Stairs
52
Hollywood Dreams
7
Hottie and the Nottie, The
60
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
15
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
81
Juno
70
Lars and the Real Girl
47
Lions for Lambs
41
Mad Money
71
Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
xx
Moondance Alexander
53
Music Within
77
Nanking
44
Nina's Heavenly Delights
24
One Missed Call
74
Orphanage, The
30
Over Her Dead Body
39
P.S. I Love You
37
P2
46
Reservation Road
55
Resurrecting the Champ
57
Romulus, My Father
85
Savages, The
78
Starting Out in the Evening
83
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
57
Teeth
92
There Will Be Blood
38
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
32
Untraceable
63
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
68
War Dance
71
Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, The
43
Youth Without Youth
92
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The
92
There Will Be Blood
85
Savages, The
84
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
83
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
81
Juno
81
Bamako
78
Starting Out in the Evening
77
Nanking
74
Orphanage, The
71
Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, The
71
Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
70
Lars and the Real Girl
69
Charlie Wilson's War
68
Business of Being Born, The
68
Delirious
68
War Dance
65
Great Debaters, The
64
Cloverfield
63
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
63
11th Hour, The
63
Hannah Takes the Stairs
60
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
57
Romulus, My Father
57
Teeth
55
Resurrecting the Champ
53
Music Within
52
Hollywood Dreams
51
Golden Compass, The
49
Good Night, The
47
Bella
47
Lions for Lambs
47
27 Dresses
46
Reservation Road
44
Nina's Heavenly Delights
43
Youth Without Youth
43
Final Season, The
41
Mad Money
41
First Sunday
39
Alvin and the Chipmunks
39
P.S. I Love You
38
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
37
P2
32
Untraceable
30
Over Her Dead Body
30
Cover
29
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
24
One Missed Call
15
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
7
Hottie and the Nottie, The
xx
Moondance Alexander
Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.
|
Men of Honor
20th Century Fox Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language
Starring
Robert De Niro,
Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Charlize Theron,
Aunjanue Ellis,
Hal Holbrook,
Michael Rapaport,
Powers Boothe,
and
David Keith
Inspired by the life of Carl Brashear (Gooding, Jr.). The setting of his journey is the little known and dangerous world of deep-sea diving in the U.S. Navy of the 1950s and 60s. (20th Century Fox Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Scott Marshall Smith
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
George Tillman Jr.
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 10, 2001
Video: April 10, 2001
Theatrical: November 10, 2000
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
128 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
In-depth performances by De Niro and Gooding Jr. provide the oxygen for this extremely shipshape biopic.

80
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Passes muster as an old-style biopic with its heart in the right place. There won't be a dry eye in the house.
75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Inspirational biographical movie that really works.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
One of the more uplifting films of the season.

75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Just what Gooding needed to restart his stalled career.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It isn't about thrills and explosions, but about tenacity, and most of it takes place within our own imaginations.

70
Dallas Observer
Andy Klein
If you don't view it too analytically, Men of Honor provides almost more uplift than a body can handle.

70
LA Weekly
F. X. Feeney
The main body of the film earns comparison with the military parables of John Ford, particularly "The Long Gray Line" and "The Wings of Eagles."

67
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Educational and upstanding, a little overacted and more than a little overdramatized. But it's honorable.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
A stalwart military inspirational.

63
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Goes to such great lengths to show the greatness of its Navy diver hero that it neglects to add much depth to his character - or the story.

63
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
Flaws and all, Men of Honor ultimately does its duty. It honors the feats of an incredible man.

60
Mr. Showbiz
Larry Terenzi
Sunk by its own melodramatic falseness, and it stands as a well-meaning yet lacking tribute to a courageous man.

60
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
In its quest to create "wholesome" entertainment, the movie industry is furiously turning back the clock four decades or so, to the days when men were men, girls were cute but knew their place and pencil-necked Poindexters stayed out of your damn face.

60
Variety
Todd McCarthy/ David Stratton
Those in search of positive role models and films detailing little-known aspects of black and military history, or stressing the value of tenacity and hard work, pic has something to offer.

60
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Engagingly corny drama.

60
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Leaves you wanting to know more, and that's not a bad thing.

60
Time
Richard Schickel
There's something refreshing about its utterly unembarrassed embrace of the familiar. The director, George Tillman Jr., either doesn't notice or doesn't give a hoot about the way Scott Marshall Smith's script piles up cliches.

50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
In an effort to turn Brashear's life into a larger-than-life sermon, Men of Honor almost manages to make it all feel like an overbearing crock.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Gooding can't will this well-meaning film into life.

50
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
It's hard not to like a movie like Men of Honor, but it's entirely possible.

50
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Until its unbearably hokey ending, acquits itself reasonably well.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Gooding and De Niro bring their characters to vivid life despite the unsubtle screenplay and hyperactive music score.

50
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Leaves you exhausted and even bored.

50
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Storytelling like this weighs heavier than a standard diving suit, and it's really up to you, if you're ready to take the plunge.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Loses focus of whom the film is honoring.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Strives to be an inspirational depth charge, but its power is consistently waylaid by some genuinely hokey dialogue and situations.

40
TV Guide
Steve Simels
By the film's big finale, the whole thing has begun to feel distinctly ridiculous.

30
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
The filmmakers at once coarsen and dilute a fascinating life into a lumpy puddle of punishing inspirational hokum.

20
Film.com
Sean Means
A bad movie about a great man.


The average user rating for this movie is 7.8 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Read more user comments...
Discuss this movie in our forums |