Gattaca
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: October 24, 1997 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
8
Negative:
1
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60
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
Although that's enough plot for two movies, Niccol proceeds to clog up his meticulously mounted story with a murder and a romance (hence Uma Thurman), allowing needless intrigue to distract from his ideas. Read full review
60
The New YorkerMichael Sragow
Niccol's work is artful but self-important and thin. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
No aliens. No firefights in space. No robots. Just an eerily attractive, sleekly costumed cast in a stylish, cooly intelligent throwback to the Twilight Zone era of deeply serious science fiction. Read full review
60
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Although the movie has its moments -- particularly when our hero finds himself surrounded by a gimlet-eyed circle of futuristic detectives -- it's never really successful. Read full review
50
Washington PostRita Kempley
Gattaca may be all done up in new-fangled notions, but underneath all the guff about designer babies, it rests on a notion that was a staple of the original "Star Trek" series. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Clearly, an effort was made to create a serious, thoughtful movie. Read full review
40
EmpireNeil Jeffries
It's a great set-up but sadly the plot unfolds slowly and with little action, playing like a short story. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesJack Mathews
Niccol's script, which has the earnest simplicity of a freshman philosophy paper, is merely naked exploitation, a sci-fi snow job that projects a contemporary ethical question--would a perfect human be human?--into a solemn future where the worst-case scenario unfolds as conventional Hollywood melodrama. Read full review
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