Forrest Gump Reviews
Flipside Movie Emporium
Exquisitely made, expertly crafted... and a work of purest, blackest evil.
| Original Score: 1/5
rec.arts.movies.reviews
It was competently made but overlong and occasionally infuriating.
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| Original Score: 0 out of -4..+4
Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.
Combustible Celluloid
A vile, irresponsible film whose massive success says some very frightening things about America.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The wearisome Forrest Gump won six Oscars.
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| Original Score: C-
Forrest Gump has the elements of an emotionally gripping story. Yet it feels less like a romance than like a coffee-table book celebrating the magic of special effects.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Palo Alto Weekly
The press kit says Gump brings a rare clarity to what we went through in the '50s, '60s and '70s. But I only saw a pitiful stooge taking the pie of life in the face, thoughtfully licking his fingers.
| Original Score: 1/4
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Gets my vote for the most offensive, morally repugnant film ever made
| Original Score: 0/5
New Times
Stupid is as stupid does, and this movie is, indeed, stupid.
| Original Score: 2/5
Internet Reviews
It was almost like it was written by a committee and everybody got to write 10 minutes of the story.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
The worst thing is the film goes for brilliance when it really isn't.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Film Freak Central
Toeing the centreline like a motherf***er while Rome burns. Can I get an "amen"?
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| Original Score: 1/4
For all its ambition, the movie ends up using great historical events in the service of a dubious sentimentality.
Reduces the tumult of the last few decades to a virtual-reality theme park: a baby-boomer version of Disney's America.
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| Original Score: C
The Nation
The greatest pleasure the picture affords Americans is most likely a sense of relief; Forrest Gump assures us that we've awakened from the nightmare of history; that all is forgiven, and most has already been forgotten.
Time Out
Top CriticAs this mawkish conservative movie ultimately goes to prove: ignorance is bliss.
