AMLF | Release Date: February 12, 1982 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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5
Negative:
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The director, Jean-Jacques Annaud, has his own primitivism: he doesn't seem to have discovered crosscutting yet. What's fun in the movie is the makeup, and the way that the faces of the three warriors are simian and yet attractive; the 60s have made the ape look seem hip.
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The talk is mostly in grunts and whoops, and the film sometimes reaches the brink of a Mel Brooks travesty, but never falls over. [18 Jan 1982]