Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Despite good work from star Charlie Hunnam, it can’t escape the shadow of the original Steve McQueen version.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: It is the non-Hollywood, less glossy version of Charrière’s story and it packs its own kind of punch.
- Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: Papillon is well made and the two lead performances are great. However, it doesn’t do much to distinguish itself from other prison movies.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com
- Excerpt: remake is overall more satisfying than miscast original … less movie star charismatic, Hunnam plays scruffy squire to McQueen’s Cooler King … ‘Les Miz’ meets ‘Escape from Alcatraz’
- Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: This is the difference between a 1970s Hollywood vehicle starring Steve McQueen as a badass adonis and a 2017 cinematic landscape able to embrace nuance and compassion despite the testosterone flowing onscreen with a virtually all-male cast. Empathy without a gruff “I would kill you myself” is no longer taboo. It’s a sign of strength.
- Joao Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
