The Greatest Beer Run Ever
Apple TV+ | Release Date: September 23, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
39
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
16
Negative:
10
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38
Boston GlobeMark FeeneySep 28, 2022
Perhaps the biggest problem with Beer Run is tonal haphazardness. Sometimes it’s meant to be funny — other times serious — other times even solemn. (Alternate title: “Chickie Learns About the Horrors of War.”) The few jokes that are clearly intentional tend to fall flat. Read full review
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ConsequenceWilliam BibbianiSep 30, 2022
Whatever this film’s intentions may have been, and perhaps they were wholly noble, one thing is abundantly clear: Smokey and the Bandit is still, and without much competition, cinema’s greatest beer run. And that movie managed to deliver a whole truckload of beer without doing any disservice to the Vietnam War. Read full review
33
The PlaylistJason BaileySep 14, 2022
Peter Farrelly’s “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” isn’t so much a bad movie — though it’s certainly that — as an inexplicable one, a comedy/drama set in the Vietnam War that somehow believes it’s saying anything that hasn’t been said a million times already about that conflict, and far more skillfully. Read full review
30
Little White LiesMark AschSep 28, 2022
The film doesn’t have the detail or imagination to fill in the gaps of a well-worn story with anything convincing. Read full review
30
TheWrapSteve PondSep 14, 2022
The early scenes are at times surprisingly awkward – and while things get better when Chickie gets to Vietnam and Russell Crowe shows up to (briefly) ground the movie with his quiet gravity, “Beer Run” still lurches from silliness to preachiness in a way that’s rarely satisfying. Read full review
30
VarietyOwen GleibermanSep 14, 2022
“The Greatest Beer Run Ever” lumbers and meanders, and not just because the structure isn’t there. What we’re seeing, on a human level, is only half-interesting and rather slipshod. Like “Green Book,” “Greatest Beer Run” is based on a true story, but what Peter Farrelly responded to in that story translates, this time, into a token “relevant” boomer nostalgia that hasn’t been fully thought through. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenSep 14, 2022
Farrelly’s loftier impulses work against the material. The result is a meandering, disjointed production that struggles throughout to find a satisfying tone. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoSep 30, 2022
It’s not just a bad movie—those are common enough to be dismissible—but a movie that I found grossly condescending and manipulative, a dramedy that’s so deeply unconcerned with its actual true story other than how it can be crafted to emotionally impact an audience. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSep 28, 2022
Efron makes what he can of an impossible role. He’s watchable, that helps. Read full review
20
Screen DailyTim GriersonSep 14, 2022
Feels manipulative and glib ... Farrelly’s tendency toward simplistic bromides in Green Book is even more egregious here. Read full review
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