Kon Tiki Reviews
National Post
It all combines to create a great true-life adventure of a type no longer seen in the world.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Top CriticThe characters don't register as much more than genre archetypes, but that doesn't spoil the fun, since the filmmakers re-create the journey in such vivid detail.
Most everyone loves a ripping good sea yarn, so why doesn't Kon-Tiki rip?
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| Original Score: 2/4
Part history lesson, part classic adventure tale and often stunning to watch.
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| Original Score: 3/4
"Kon-Tiki" is stalwart and uplifting and there are passing moments of wonder.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Unfortunately, sharks and whales aren't the stars of the film, so the movie is a pretty humdrum affair when it focuses on humans, even when actors are playing characters based on real people.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Kon-Tiki has the look and feel of a big, bracing adventure. It skirts many of the emotional issues in favor of high adventure with hungry sharks and monster storms.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The film harks back to the era of "Swiss Family Robinson," when films were like well-made hospital beds, all four corners neatly tucked.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The voyage features some spectacularly exciting encounters with wildlife, difficult negotiations among the men and one stunning vista after another of sunny, blue gorgeousness.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
While the wind goes out of its sails a few times along the way, this is a ravishingly photographed, old-fashioned man-against-the-elements adventure epic propelled by human-scaled heroics.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Movie Nation
An old fashioned true life adventure yarn, old fashioned in all the best ways.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Paste Magazine
Hagen's performance shows an unblinking determination that makes every near-death moment more unpredictable.
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| Original Score: 7.3/10
Film Journal International
Handsomely produced but indifferently scripted account of one of the most legendary sea voyages.
Leonard Maltin's Picks
The visual effects are seamless and, in one key scene, awe-inspiring-all the more impressive for having been executed on a modest budget.
It's a terrifically engaging throwback to the uplifting, irony-free, outdoorsy '60s Disney yarns ...
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| Original Score: 3/4
Reeling Reviews
Though the modern "Kon-Tiki" is a dramatization of true events, these events feel real as we experience the dangers, frustrations and elations of the crew.
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| Original Score: B
Film Racket
the directors feel at once enamored and burdened by the impossibility of the narrative, and spend nearly two hours trying to convince the audience it all really happened
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| Original Score: 3/5
The men are handsome, the sea is pretty and if the sharks look as rubbery as last week's chicken, at least they add some drama - and buckets of sloshing blood and guts - to what otherwise proves a dull affair.
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| Original Score: 2/5
"Kon-Tiki" is a ripping yarn torn from yesterday's headlines.
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| Original Score: 4/5
