Screamers Reviews

A fun, fast-paced futuristic thriller with enough jolts per frame to keep even the most impatient action fan happy.

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| Original Score: 3/5

| Original Score: 3/5

| Original Score: 3/5

Screamers oozes atmosphere. It's a dark film that borrows heavily from the likes of the Alien films, Dune, Blade Runner, and John Carpenter's updated The Thing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

It remains reasonably faithful to the original short story, the production values are okay and some of the dialogue is pretty effective.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Had Screamers been made in 1980 it would have achieved classic status.

Full Review | Original Score: low +1 out of -4..+4

| Original Score: B-

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Based on a short story by the great nutball sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, Screamers is more like a high-pitched rip-off of Alien.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

not as cool as it could be

| Original Score: 2.5/5

The design and effects teams have lent scale and impact to the futuristic locations and sets. If only Duguay's flashy, aimless direction had succeeded in filling these barren wastes and antiseptic interiors with something resembling human life.

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| Original Score: 2/5

| Original Score: 2/5

| Original Score: 2/5

Until it succumbs to one cliche too many, Screamers, which was directed by Christian Duguay, does an efficient job of generating a stomach-knotting tension.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

| Original Score: 1.5/4

Sacrifices last traces of plausibility and common sense for the sake of "surprise" twist that any experienced viewer could have predicted ages ago.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10

| Original Score: 2/5

There's nothing exhilarating or enjoyable in any of this.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

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