Critic Reviews

• Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

  The picture is a sloppy mess that stumbles toward oblivion like a drunk on a losing streak.

• Variety Staff, Variety

  An ill- conceived vehicle for actor (and co-writer) Jon Voight to showcase his character comedy talents in a loose, semi-improvised environment.

• Vincent Canby, New York Times

  About the only thing to be said on the film's behalf is that it does have the courage of its own mistakes. Lookin' to Get Out stays on the same wrong track from beginning to end.

• Adam Lippe, Examiner.com

  Ashby's instincts are so off throughout Lookin' To Get Out that he only accentuates his major weaknesses as a filmmaker - plot twists, slapstick, chase sequences and lots of screaming that eschews any character development or scenes of insight.

• Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

  Moronic comedy that's pleasant enough until it runs out of steam in the third act.

• Kevin Carr, 7M Pictures

  While I understand and somewhat respect the apparent improv style for this movie, it did tend to lend itself to redundant and useless dialogue.

• Aaron Hillis, GreenCine

  As duplicitous as its rogue's gallery of lowlifes, the film situates the raw, loose stylings of '70s Hollywood ... in a glitzy, corny '80s vehicle.

• Sean Axmaker, Seanax.com

  The plot is a completely unconvincing series of coincidences but the dynamism of the characters and their friendships is marvelous.

• Mike McGranaghan, Aisle Seat

  Hal Ashby's cut of Lookin' to Get Out is a movie that deserves to be rediscovered.

• John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

  Even in its new, longer, supposedly original form, the movie doesn't generate much interest beyond the ordinary. (Extended Edition)

• John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

  ...the direction falls flat, the script is implausible...and the acting is either forced or dull.

• Joseph Jon Lanthier, Slant Magazine

  Despite the confused content of the film, one has to concede that it looks phenomenal.

• Joseph Jon Lanthier, Slant Magazine

  Hal Ashby and Jon Voight sadly exhume the rigid, malodorous corpse of the '60s to kiss it on the lips and stuff some 50-dollar bills in its sphincter.

• , TV Guide's Movie Guide

  Director Hal Ashby's cut of the film was chopped by Paramount and by producer Schaffel and writers Voight and Schwartz, and it came up weaker for it. In spite of having problems, however, the film is not a complete turkey.

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