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Cocktail
1988
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Cocktail
Positive Reviews
6
Negative reviews
12
Average Rating
2.1
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2.5
Its a shame the filmmakers didnt take a longer, harder look at this material.
Rogerebert
0.5
If a visitor from Mars needed a crash course in sexism, this would serve.
Time Out
2.0
Cocktail is perhaps useful as slab of mindless, extremely decorative, fantasy entertainment (when was the last time you applauded a bar man! for doing ..
1.0
Beyond the Valley of the Color of Money might be a more appropriate title.Tom Cruise plays a flashy bartender on Manhattans Upper East Side who falls ..
Chicago Reader
3.1
Cocktail kicks off with an entertainingly lighthearted opening stretch revolving around Brians initial entry into the world of bartending...
Reel Film Reviews
2.0
Review Our Score by Adrian Turner Having turned fighter pilots and pool players into sex objects in Top Gun and The Color of Money, Tom Cruise attempt ..
Radio Times
3.5
I consider this not just a stupid movie but an irresponsible one.
Cs Monitor
2.5
Suffice it to say that the last hour or so of Cocktail uses enough dumb overused story plots to keep Days of Our Lives in daytime soap episodes for a ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.0
We live in an age of star quantity, when actors bulk up and become icons.
Time
1.0
In fact, with no fewer than 17 of Donaldsons favorite rock songs and a complete lack of dramatic impetus, COCKTAIL would fare better as an extended pl ..
Movies Tv Guide
1.0
It is an inane romantic drama that only a very young, very naive bartender could love.
Ny Times
2.5
Overall, its ridiculous, but Cocktail is a real classic of the late 80s self help moviemaking genre.
Contact Music
2.0
Every director has to have one of these at one time or another; one can only wish Donaldson a less blatantly calculated project next time and a healin ..
La Times
2.5
This time, though, hes just cashing the check. Cocktail is a meandering, shapeless film, without the force of character to resist any of the cliches t ..
Articles Chicago Tribune
3.1
A boring golf game featuring that wild gopher from the first film is the less than grand finale.
Articles Chicago Tribune
0.5
As if realizing that his star hasnt smiled for 15 minutes, Donaldson tacks on a goody goody ending that would shame the Care Bears. How to sum up what ..
People
2.0
What if all those super party animals who bubble through the brewski ads existed for more than 60 seconds at a time
Articles Orlando Sentinel
2.5
It may not be a megaton bomb, but Cocktail is definitely of the Molotov type.
Articles Philly
1.3
The philosopher Hannah Arendt once wrote a book about the banality of evil. After seeing Cocktail, I want to write one about the evil of banality.
Articles Philly
2.5
Cruises name on the marquee is plenty to insure the success of the film, even if it is lopsided, shallow, and slips the audience a Mickey Finn at the ..
Articles Sun Sentinel
1.5
Cocktail is a vacuous throwback to Saturday Night Feverwithout the cultural novelty.
Maclean's Magazine
1.5
Ultimately, the ideas in this film fall as flat as stale beer and honest emotions are as watered down as cheap whiskey. This Cocktail is definitely on ..
Associated Press
3.0
Its the bartending antics and musical backdrops that make the film entertaining. Without them, Cocktail is just another beer gone flat.
Movie Metropolis
4.0
This science fiction thriller is giddy with oddball twists on the tired old cops and robbers genre.
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