Six Days Seven Nights
Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: June 12, 1998 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
13
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
Ms. Heche and Mr. Ford make an appealing, wisecracking team, and they look comfortable with the rugged demands of their roles. Read full review
70
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Part of what's so entertaining about Six Days, Seven Nights is the way Reitman happily mixes all the conventions of the stranded-on-an-island motif -- unpleasant encounters with creepy-crawly nature, the building of stuff out of bamboo and found objects, the first kiss in paradise. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Mostly it's an overearnest examination of emotional and sexual fidelity. Read full review
70
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Sprinkled with just enough laughs, close shaves and compromising positions to keep audiences mildly interested, this old-fashioned popcorn picture is agreeably breezy and colorful, but lacks the pizzazz and star chemistry of a genre ancestor such as "Romancing the Stone." Read full review
70
Washington PostRita Kempley
Romantic comedies don't get more formulaic than this bouncing-screwball valentine, but then they don't get much more delightful, either. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It's the kind of movie that provides diversion for the idle channel-surfer but isn't worth a trip to the theater. A lot of it seems cobbled together out of spare parts. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
This fluffy escape flick, directed by Ivan Reitman, is a TV sitcom plot grafted onto a travel brochure. Read full review
63
USA TodayMike Clark
Glorious picture-postcard photography. [10 July 1998, p.8E]
60
EmpireIan Freer
Bright, breezy, thoroughly enjoyable while you're sitting through it yet not likely to stick around in your head for long. Read full review
60
Film ThreatRon Wells
David Schwimmer, our whiny friend, is used to good effect as Heche's boyfriend. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Against the odds of this wheezy material and Michael Browning's fitfully funny script, director Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters, Dave), a master of timing, contrives to spin a likable romantic comedy. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
An acceptable star vehicle, no better or worse than it should be, a well-worn standard diversion that gets the job done without eliciting either howls of fury or paroxysms of delight. Read full review
50
The New YorkerSarah Kerr
Aside from Heche, who is a quick, witty actress, the film seems to reside in a bizarre time warp of bad seventies comedy, complete with retrograde ethnic stereotypes and huge, jiggling breasts. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
All that's missing from Ivan Reitman's Six Days, Seven Nights is a plot with a moment's originality. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
It's no accident that portions of Six Days mildly echo some of Ford's most popular films, from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to "Working Girl." Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleBob Graham
Action in an action comedy is supposed to be funny, too, as Jackie Chan well knows. The refitting of the crashed plane is so tedious we feel as if we're doing the work ourselves. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Ford is the problem: He looks great for his age (56, to Heche's 29), but oozes a stolid gloom that snuffs out those sparks long before they can set the lush scenery on fire. In a classic screwball comedy, he'd be Ralph Bellamy. Read full review
50
TimeRichard Schickel
It's all so predictable. And you begin to wonder, as you so often do at the movies these days, why did they bother? And more to the point, why should we bother? [15 June 1998, p.72]
40
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
When the danger subsides and the sparkless romance returns to the foreground, the vehicle comes sputtering back to earth with a thud, weighed down by the inertia of its leaden leading lady. Read full review
40
Dallas ObserverScott Kelton Jones
A lack of fire is ultimately the problem of the entire film. Six Days tries hard to recall Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn riding the rapids in "The African Queen," but the film falls short even of Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in "Romancing the Stone." Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Not especially funny, romantic, or exciting. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleSteve Davis
In short, there's nothing remotely real or appealing about it. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Labors mightily to be a frolicsome entertainment, but the results are - well, labored. The dialogue isn't snappy, the story isn't surprising, there's little chemistry between the stars. Read full review
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