The China Syndrome Reviews
eFilmCritic.com
File this one under 'Hasn't Aged Well.'
Full Review
| Original Score: 3/5
Top CriticA moderately compelling thriller about the potential perils of nuclear energy, whose major fault is an overweening sense of its own self-importance.
Parallax View
What we must quarrel with is the heartless, devious, and appallingly manipulative manner in which the authors of the film have drawn their good-guys-and-bad-guys battlelines ...
A terrific thriller that incidentally raises the most unsettling questions about how safe nuclear power plants really are.
Full Review
| Original Score: 4/4
eFilmCritic.com
A tight-fisted and paranoid mini-classic.
| Original Score: 4/5
All a bit too earnest, despite the seriousness of the subject, with Fonda setting her jaw and stepping into father's footsteps as Tinseltown's very own protector of humanity; but it's tightly scripted and directed, and genuinely tense in places.
Spirituality and Practice
The China Syndrome is a piercing look at the dangers of nuclear energy and the unwillingness of corporate heads to put public safety above economic considerations.
Reel.com
Whistleblower saga that still packs a punch.
| Original Score: 4/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It's an exciting and worthwhile old-fashioned thriller about the dangers of a nuclear power accident.
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| Original Score: A-
Los Angeles Alternative
Crackling drama about TV reporter (Jane Fonda) investigating a coverup at a faulty nuclear reactor, and pressing upon conflicted technician played by the first-rate Jack Lemmon to go public with the story.
| Original Score: 4/5
Kansas City Kansan
Controversial in its day, it still scores
| Original Score: 4/5
