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29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneThe action is brilliant, the combat sharp and rattling, and the film follows the historical record more closely than most Hollywood films.
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe rousing success of the final 45 minutes cannot entirely counterbalance the stumbling uncertainty of the first 90 minutes.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe film brings a spectacular but little-known chapter of World War II to the big screen with meticulous attention to period detail -- and almost none to compelling narrative.
- 50The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinA lumbering, disappointingly bland war movie.
- 50Dallas ObserverLuke Y. ThompsonDallas ObserverLuke Y. ThompsonWhen it comes to World War II movies, you may never have seen one like this before -- if only because it's like three different movies at the same time.
- 50L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasL.A. WeeklyScott FoundasThe Great Raid cries out for the kind of B-movie industriousness that Dahl brought to his early, low-budget films noirs (Kill Me Again, Red Rock West and The Last Seduction), but instead it has dreams of sugarplum Oscars dancing in its head, and never stops mistaking spectacle for the truly spectacular.
- 50Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonThis is a movie for people more interested in the subject matter than its dramatic presentation.
- 40VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerThis overlong march will bore all but the most nobly patriotic.
- 40Village VoiceMark HolcombVillage VoiceMark HolcombThe Great Raid is ultimately scotched by History Channel–worthy nostalgia.
- 33Entertainment WeeklyScott BrownEntertainment WeeklyScott BrownThe main problem? Raid lacks a center. It's an exhausted sprawl with multiple story foci, none of them terribly compelling.