Aloha
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: May 29, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
21
Negative:
12
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireMay 29, 2015
As it stands now, Aloha feels like several films at once, crammed together and sped up, with results that are emotionally hollow and narratively confusing. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Nathan RabinMay 28, 2015
Aloha is a marshmallow of a film: soft on the inside, soft on the outside and wholly devoid of substance. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy BurrMay 28, 2015
Aloha is as generic as its title. The islands exist solely as an exotic backdrop for the pretty Hollywood haoles to play in. Business as usual, and I never thought I’d say that about a Cameron Crowe movie. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 28, 2015
The performances are passable, save for Murray — who goes ham, and Alec Baldwin, as a general who goes comically nuclear. He at least leaves an impression. Read full review
38
New York PostSara StewartMay 28, 2015
The film alternates between shoving its confusing plot forward and dropping dialogue bombs that fizzle. Read full review
33
HitfixDrew McWeenyMay 28, 2015
Whimsy's hard, honestly motivated romance is harder, and when you get both of those things wrong in the same movie, the result is almost too much to take. Read full review
33
IndieWireGreg CwikMay 28, 2015
Equally hobbled by an amateurish script and vaguely defined characters, the movie's long list of mediocrities have an anonymous quality, as though the director has been completely reborn as a hack. Read full review
32
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeMay 28, 2015
From “Vanilla Sky” onward, unfortunately, Crowe seems to have been stricken with some form of tone-deafness that curdles quirky into shrill. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisJun 3, 2015
The entire movie has a creepy aura of self-consciousness. In addition to the aforementioned definitions of aloha, the word also doubles as a coming-and-going greeting in the Hawaiian vernacular. Here, it regrettably signifies the possible goodbye to a once-promising career of a filmmaker who had us at hello. Read full review
30
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJun 2, 2015
Cameron Crowe writes movies like he's calling us in eighth grade with his heart on fire. Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallMay 28, 2015
All Crowe's movie has going for it is casting, a lineup of favored actors wasted in a screenplay unsure of what it wants to be. Aloha is by turns a love quadrangle that never materializes, an ode to Hawaiian sovereignty, an opposites-attract cliche and an outer-space weapons caper, all of which is clumsily executed. Read full review
25
Washington PostAnn HornadayMay 28, 2015
Somewhere on the incoherent pu pu platter that is Cameron Crowe’s Aloha, a nifty romantic comedy congeals and shrivels, inexplicably untouched. Read full review
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