Lame and tedious comic book film. Try THE SHADOW or THE ROCKETEER instead.
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03/19/03
Dick Tracy (1990)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:24
Rotten:12
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Dick Tracy is stylish, unique, and an undeniable technical triumph, but it ultimately struggles to rise above its two-dimensional artificiality.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Warren Beatty directs and stars in this lavish adaptation of Chester Gould's famous comic strip. Against a stylized and solid color backdrop of 1930s Chicago, straight-laced, square-jawed,... [More]
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Reviews for Dick Tracy
This is a unique movie experience, well conceived and executed.
03/16/03
No review available.
02/28/03
Less a comic book movie than a comic strip movie, reveling in the primary colors of the Sunday morning paper.
10/03/02
No review available.
09/16/02
colorful fune attuned to the spirit of the comic strip; Pacino is lots of fun.
08/20/02
No review available.
08/08/02
Saved from sheer mediocrity by Al Pacino
07/30/02
No review available.
07/26/02
A colorful and mostly entertaining little experiment.
07/25/02
For all its superficial pleasures, Dick Tracy ultimately flounders because it provides an audience with nothing to take home and dream about.
05/12/01
Top CriticOn the whole Dick Tracy is a lot of fun, and fans of the offbeat may embrace it as a unique film amid a sea of movies that seem cloned from each other.
01/01/00
Tracy is Tinseltown's annual celebration of everything that's wrong with itself: the hype, the agent-negotiated star system, the Hollywood 'fun' assembly-line method of copy-cat mediocrity, etc.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's fun spotting stars under cakes of make-up and the panache, great supporting cast and good-natured, old-fashioned feel make for a better movie than you remember.
01/01/00
Makes me mad just thinking about it.
01/01/00
Dick Tracy is Batman in a fedora -- a much-ballyhooed cartoon noir that's as skimpy on substance as it is burgeoning with jujube-colored, jutt-jawed style.
01/01/00
Top CriticThis is a movie in which every frame contains some kind of artificial effect. An entire world has been built here, away from the daylight and the realism of ordinary city streets.
01/01/00
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