Six Days Seven Nights

The New York Times Elvis Mitchell

Ms. Heche and Mr. Ford make an appealing, wisecracking team, and they look comfortable with the rugged demands of their roles.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Part of what's so entertaining about Six Days, Seven Nights is the way Reitman happily mixes all the conventions of the stranded-on-an-island motif -- unpleasant encounters with creepy-crawly nature, the building of stuff out of bamboo and found objects, the first kiss in paradise.

Washington Post Rita Kempley

Romantic comedies don't get more formulaic than this bouncing-screwball valentine, but then they don't get much more delightful, either.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Mostly it's an overearnest examination of emotional and sexual fidelity.

Variety Todd McCarthy

Sprinkled with just enough laughs, close shaves and compromising positions to keep audiences mildly interested, this old-fashioned popcorn picture is agreeably breezy and colorful, but lacks the pizzazz and star chemistry of a genre ancestor such as "Romancing the Stone."

USA Today Mike Clark

Glorious picture-postcard photography. [10 July 1998, p.8E]

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

It's the kind of movie that provides diversion for the idle channel-surfer but isn't worth a trip to the theater. A lot of it seems cobbled together out of spare parts.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

This fluffy escape flick, directed by Ivan Reitman, is a TV sitcom plot grafted onto a travel brochure.

Empire Ian Freer

Bright, breezy, thoroughly enjoyable while you're sitting through it yet not likely to stick around in your head for long.

Film Threat Ron Wells

David Schwimmer, our whiny friend, is used to good effect as Heche's boyfriend.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

Against the odds of this wheezy material and Michael Browning's fitfully funny script, director Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters, Dave), a master of timing, contrives to spin a likable romantic comedy.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

An acceptable star vehicle, no better or worse than it should be, a well-worn standard diversion that gets the job done without eliciting either howls of fury or paroxysms of delight.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Ford is the problem: He looks great for his age (56, to Heche's 29), but oozes a stolid gloom that snuffs out those sparks long before they can set the lush scenery on fire. In a classic screwball comedy, he'd be Ralph Bellamy.

Time Richard Schickel

It's all so predictable. And you begin to wonder, as you so often do at the movies these days, why did they bother? And more to the point, why should we bother? [15 June 1998, p.72]

San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham

Action in an action comedy is supposed to be funny, too, as Jackie Chan well knows. The refitting of the crashed plane is so tedious we feel as if we're doing the work ourselves.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

It's no accident that portions of Six Days mildly echo some of Ford's most popular films, from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to "Working Girl."

The New Yorker Sarah Kerr

Aside from Heche, who is a quick, witty actress, the film seems to reside in a bizarre time warp of bad seventies comedy, complete with retrograde ethnic stereotypes and huge, jiggling breasts.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

All that's missing from Ivan Reitman's Six Days, Seven Nights is a plot with a moment's originality.

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

When the danger subsides and the sparkless romance returns to the foreground, the vehicle comes sputtering back to earth with a thud, weighed down by the inertia of its leaden leading lady.

Dallas Observer Scott Kelton Jones

A lack of fire is ultimately the problem of the entire film. Six Days tries hard to recall Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn riding the rapids in "The African Queen," but the film falls short even of Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in "Romancing the Stone."

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

Not especially funny, romantic, or exciting.

Austin Chronicle Steve Davis

In short, there's nothing remotely real or appealing about it.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Labors mightily to be a frolicsome entertainment, but the results are - well, labored. The dialogue isn't snappy, the story isn't surprising, there's little chemistry between the stars.