Convoy
United Artists | Release Date: June 28, 1978 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
47
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
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5
Mixed:
5
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireKim Newman
A noisy but enjoyable destruction derby of a film, sadly with none of the subtlety, invention or skill of Spielberg's Duel. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Robert Martin
One good thing B-grade trucker movies have is a quality we can call non-intellectual honesty. As a rule, they have no pretentions to do anything other than amuse the viewer. Peckinpah tries to do more and fails. [03 July 1978]
40
The New York TimesVincent Canby
The movie is a big, costly, phony exercise in myth‐making, machismo, romance-of-the-open-road nonsense and incredible self‐indulgence. Read full review
50
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Sam Peckinpah’s Convoy starts out as Smokey and the Bandit, segues into either Moby Dick or Les Miserables, and ends in the usual script confusion and disarray, the whole stew peppered with the vulgar excess of random truck crashes and miscellaneous destruction. Read full review
50
Washington PostGary Arnold
Peckinpah is a filmmaking heavyweight, but in Convoy all he's doing is fighting off the boredom and frustration that grow out of coping with stupid material. [28 June 1978, p.E4]
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