The Day of the Dolphin Reviews
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A disappointing adaptation of the best-selling novel, neither satisfying as thriller or as adventure.
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| Original Score: C+
TV Guide's Movie Guide
The screenplay chooses some poor times to relieve tension, and the jokes fall flat.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Top CriticA rare and regrettably uneven combination of ideas and action.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A less stone-faced than usual Scott kept up with the frolicking dolphins in the acting department.
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| Original Score: B
A bizarre and often ridiculous attempt to merge documentary, suspense and comedy.
Some of the cloak-and-dagger stuff that follows is so awkwardly staged that it's difficult to know whether the simplicity was designed for youngsters or as parody.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Tries so hard not to be a conventional science-fiction thriller that it fails, alas, to be anything.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Cinema em Cena
Depois da proeza de conseguir fazer com que acreditemos em sua premissa absurda (um golfinho falante), o filme se rende a uma trama óbvia e repleta de clichês.
| Original Score: 3/5
Apollo Guide
As a cinematic time capsule to a goofier era, it kinda works.
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| Original Score: 64/100
PopMatters
Jake told us kids that what we always suspected was true: the summer of love was dead, long live the summer of the shark.
