Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Warner Bros. | Release Date: May 18, 1979 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
22
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
0
Negative:
6
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30
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
It provides the thinnest of excuses for rerunning the 'dramas' of the night before, but it doesn't do anything to salvage the venerable formula. Read full review
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VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
A virtual remake of the 1972 original, without that film's mounting suspense and excitement. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
Mr. Allen, who directed Beyond the Poseidon Adventure and produced it too, is so obviously ill-equipped to stage action scenes in cramped quarters that his audience winds up wishing as fervently as his characters for a chance to see the light of day. Read full review
30
NewsweekDavid Ansen
It is perhaps not presumptuous to take the blind man as the director's image of his ideal viewer, but here, I think, Allen becomes overly cautious. Had the man been blind and deaf, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure would have achieved the stature of a true masterpiece. [11 Jun 1979, p.99]
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
What did we really, sincerely, expect anyway, from a movie in which Karl Malden plays a character named 'Wilbur,' and Slim Pickens plays a character named 'Tex'? Read full review
25
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
The whole thing is soggy cardboard. Read full review
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