Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: September 28, 1990 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
9
Negative:
4
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38
So consistently unexciting, so monumentally unconvincing, so silly. [28 Sept 1990, p.22]
33
As a matter of fact, so much of Pacific Heights is laughable, and the film is so preposterous as a premise and so clumsily directed and lacking in suspense, that it plays like a parody of a Hitchcock thriller. Or did I miss the point and this was Schlesinger's intention all along? [28 Sept 1990]
25
Pacific Heights wastes our time and the talent of three top actors, Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine. What possibly attracted them to this inconsequential exploitation film about a tenant from hell terrorizing his landlords in an effort to steal their home? We keep waiting for the film to develop some larger meaning or greater purpose. It never does. [29 Sept 1990, p.C2]