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.
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
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
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
"Kon-Tiki" is a ripping yarn torn from yesterday's headlines.
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| Original Score: 4/5
A rousing and thoroughly enjoyable Old Hollywood-style adventure.
The top-notch adventure tale "Kon-Tiki" is an old-fashioned entertainment, complete with a lead who physically recalls Peter O'Toole in "Lawrence of Arabia."
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| Original Score: 4/5
AV Club
Although Heyerdahl's book about the expedition became an international bestseller, and the documentary he directed on the same subject won an Oscar, the anthropology field has remained stubbornly unmoved. But in Kon-Tiki, the dream is all that matters.
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| Original Score: B
One of the goals of a great outdoor epic is to keep you breathless with wonder. Technically, dramatically and cinematically awesome, Kon-Tiki delivers in spades.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The film's message is sometimes clouded by sentiment, but mainly, we're told to follow our heads and our sextants, a good thing to hear on occasion.
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| Original Score: 4/5
