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36 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsDespite a blue-chip cast, Aloha is just frustrating. It can barely tell its story straight, and Crowe's attempt to get back to the days of "Jerry Maguire" and "Almost Famous" is bittersweet in ways unrelated to the narrative's seriocomic vein.
- 50Slant MagazineChris CabinSlant MagazineChris CabinAfter a while, the film's sing-a-song-for-the-world vibe, so buoyantly optimistic at first, becomes grating and smug.
- 40Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzCrowe can be a great storyteller, a terrific director whose characters make us believe in them and in what they're doing. That doesn't happen in Aloha, which famously means hello and goodbye. Stick with the latter definition here.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenWith the screenplay’s strained whimsy and pathos, not to mention its unpersuasive, at times incoherent musings on the politics of space exploration, Crowe squanders the star power at hand.
- 40VarietyAndrew BarkerVarietyAndrew BarkerUnbalanced, unwieldy, and at times nearly unintelligible, Aloha is unquestionably Cameron Crowe’s worst film.
- 40The DissolveKeith PhippsThe DissolveKeith PhippsWhatever Crowe’s ambitions, Aloha feels like a tropical transplant of past work, and an unfortunate demonstration of the law of diminishing returns.
- 40Time OutDavid EhrlichTime OutDavid EhrlichThe film is cut together with the haphazard feel of a posthumously completed record, its ungainly structure a macrocosm of the awkwardness with which the individual scenes are Frankensteined together into a lumbering monster built from close-ups and music cues.
- 32TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeFrom “Vanilla Sky” onward, unfortunately, Crowe seems to have been stricken with some form of tone-deafness that curdles quirky into shrill.
- 25Washington PostAnn HornadayWashington PostAnn HornadaySomewhere on the incoherent pu pu platter that is Cameron Crowe’s Aloha, a nifty romantic comedy congeals and shrivels, inexplicably untouched.