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The cracks are starting to show in John Carpenter's directorial instincts, but Christine is nonetheless silly, zippy fun.
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Between the smartest effects and Gordon's canny performance, [Christine] is more diverting than the material probably deserves. Apr 24, 2018 | Full Review…
Between the smartest effects and Gordon's canny performance, [Christine] is more diverting than the material probably deserves.
Gary Arnold
This deja vu premise [from the novel by Stephen King] combined with the crazed vehicle format, makes Christine appear pretty shop-worn. Sep 24, 2007 | Full Review…
This deja vu premise [from the novel by Stephen King] combined with the crazed vehicle format, makes Christine appear pretty shop-worn.
Variety Staff
Carpenter's thematic self-consciousness can't entirely overcome a shaky dramatic structure that sacrifices character logic to increasingly meaningless thrills. Sep 24, 2007 | Full Review…
Carpenter's thematic self-consciousness can't entirely overcome a shaky dramatic structure that sacrifices character logic to increasingly meaningless thrills.
Dave Kehr
Off the page, a 1958 Plymouth is no more scary than the St Bernard which romped through Cujo. Feb 9, 2006 | Full Review…
Off the page, a 1958 Plymouth is no more scary than the St Bernard which romped through Cujo.
This is the kind of movie where you walk out with a silly grin, get in your car, and lay rubber halfway down the Eisenhower. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
This is the kind of movie where you walk out with a silly grin, get in your car, and lay rubber halfway down the Eisenhower.
Roger Ebert
Only a moderately engrossing film. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 2/5
Only a moderately engrossing film.
Janet Maslin
I love Carpenter, and I like Christine well enough, but I'm not as enthusiastic about it as I am about other King films. Apr 26, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
I love Carpenter, and I like Christine well enough, but I'm not as enthusiastic about it as I am about other King films.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Relatively artless when compared to several other King adaptations around the time (Carrie, The Shining, The Dead Zone) or even with Carpenter's previous picture (1982's career-best The Thing), the film still delivers the goods as entertainment. Oct 17, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Relatively artless when compared to several other King adaptations around the time (Carrie, The Shining, The Dead Zone) or even with Carpenter's previous picture (1982's career-best The Thing), the film still delivers the goods as entertainment.
Matt Brunson
Christine shows us what great filmmakers can do with flawed material, and how even their greatness can't solve every problem. Dec 9, 2013 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Christine shows us what great filmmakers can do with flawed material, and how even their greatness can't solve every problem.
Rob Vaux
Proves Carpenter's mastery of both mood and the widescreen frame. Apr 14, 2011 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Proves Carpenter's mastery of both mood and the widescreen frame.
Nick Schager
Slickly made dumb horror flick about a diabolical car and a nerd transformed into a lady killer. Jan 8, 2011 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Slickly made dumb horror flick about a diabolical car and a nerd transformed into a lady killer.
Dennis Schwartz
Fifties fetishism here is not nostalgia but critique, the cultural residue that deforms consciousness Nov 16, 2009 | Full Review…
Fifties fetishism here is not nostalgia but critique, the cultural residue that deforms consciousness
Fernando F. Croce
The few changes made in the original story only weakens this flawed adaptation and makes its premise seem even more ludicrous than it already is, but at least all this is compensated well enough by the movie's style, expert editing and Carpenter's firm direction.
Super Reviewer
Honestly not that great, but has its moments and it is an 80's film based on a good Stephen King book, so can't hate on it too much!
A minor work by Carpenter but still thoroughly entertaining. Great character acting by Robert Prosky and Roberts Blossom as well.
I usually don't tend to find possessed vehicle movies particularly frightening but there was something really menacing and chilling about "Christine" - the devilish Plymouth Fury that seduces a 17 year-old college boy into fixing her up to her former glory to get up to more murderous mischief. It's pretty tame violence wise with the bad language being far harsher, but it's a really enjoyable film with good suspense and tongue-in-cheek humour. One of my favourites from Carpenter.
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