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Extraordinarily daring for a Hollywood film, Altered States attacks the viewer with its inventive, aggressive mix of muddled sound effects and visual pyrotechnics.
All Critics (43) | Top Critics (6) | DVD (4)
It opens at fever pitch and then starts soaring -- into genetic fantasy, into a precognitive dream of delirium and delight. Aug 16, 2014 | Full Review…
It opens at fever pitch and then starts soaring -- into genetic fantasy, into a precognitive dream of delirium and delight.
Richard Corliss
Direction by Ken Russell has energy to spare, with appropriate match-up of his baroque visual style to special effects intensive material. Jun 6, 2007 | Full Review…
Direction by Ken Russell has energy to spare, with appropriate match-up of his baroque visual style to special effects intensive material.
Variety Staff
There isn't a lucid moment in it (and much of the dialogue is rendered unintelligible by Russell's subversive direction), but it has dash, style, and good looks, as well as the funniest curtain line since Some Like It Hot. Jun 6, 2007 | Full Review…
There isn't a lucid moment in it (and much of the dialogue is rendered unintelligible by Russell's subversive direction), but it has dash, style, and good looks, as well as the funniest curtain line since Some Like It Hot.
Dave Kehr
[Director] Russell's noisily grandiose swipe at psychedelia embellishes what is no more than the cosily familiar story of the obsessive Scientist Who Goes Too Far and Unwittingly Unleashes, etc. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
[Director] Russell's noisily grandiose swipe at psychedelia embellishes what is no more than the cosily familiar story of the obsessive Scientist Who Goes Too Far and Unwittingly Unleashes, etc.
Jennifer Selway
I was overwhelmed, I was caught up in its headlong energy. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
I was overwhelmed, I was caught up in its headlong energy.
Roger Ebert
Dependably -- even exhilaratingly -- bizarre. Its strangeness, which borders cheerfully on the ridiculous, is its most enjoyable feature. Aug 30, 2004
Dependably -- even exhilaratingly -- bizarre. Its strangeness, which borders cheerfully on the ridiculous, is its most enjoyable feature.
Janet Maslin
A sensationalist head-trip, swirling us up in one man's desire to resurrect his "more primitive self," Altered States remains luridly intense. Jan 19, 2018 | Full Review…
A sensationalist head-trip, swirling us up in one man's desire to resurrect his "more primitive self," Altered States remains luridly intense.
Brian Gibson
It's got Russell's trademark eccentricity (read: slight bonkers-ness) all over it, which you may take as a warning or a recommendation. Aug 16, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's got Russell's trademark eccentricity (read: slight bonkers-ness) all over it, which you may take as a warning or a recommendation.
Ian Nathan
Russell's razzle-dazzle hallucinogenic style certainly hits bullseye. Aug 16, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Russell's razzle-dazzle hallucinogenic style certainly hits bullseye.
Alan Jones
Like much of Russell's work, Altered States is ostentatious and pretentious yet genuinely engaged with ideas and style. Aug 16, 2014 | Full Review…
Like much of Russell's work, Altered States is ostentatious and pretentious yet genuinely engaged with ideas and style.
Jon Fortgang
No character -- including William Hurt in the central role -- is even vaguely likable, and the mawkish ending is a laugh. In the Russell tradition, there are brilliant flashes on an overwrought trip to nowhere. Aug 16, 2014 | Full Review…
No character -- including William Hurt in the central role -- is even vaguely likable, and the mawkish ending is a laugh. In the Russell tradition, there are brilliant flashes on an overwrought trip to nowhere.
People Staff
It's by turns pseudo-analytical head-twister and skull-pounding monster romp, including glorious whip-crack dialogue. Aug 16, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It's by turns pseudo-analytical head-twister and skull-pounding monster romp, including glorious whip-crack dialogue.
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