Reviews for this film from our members:
- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: It seems your correspondent likes ‘Aloha’ more than much of the critical community (to say nothing of the studio releasing it), but your enjoyment will hinge greatly on your level of tolerance for Mr. Crowe’s indulgences.
- Erik Childress @ eFilmCritic
- Excerpt: There are quintessential bits of Crowe in a film that just cannot commit to the payload it wants to deliver.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: There are enough small moments here to illustrate what might have been…but some shaggy editing and too many false moves – particularly the ridiculous climax and tone deaf epilog – deep six the film.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: [T]here are times when it feels as if writer/director Cameron Crowe simply started filming with the basic outline of a screenplay that had yet to be written.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Avoid Cameron Crowe’s soggy, celluloid pu-pu platter. It’s tepid and frustrating.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Aloha is already something of a misunderstood oddity, but it wins over the viewer in spite of its faults.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Marty Mapes @ Movie Habit
- Excerpt: If Crowe hadn’t tried to do so much it might have been more enjoyable
- [New – 9/3/15] | Jason McKiernan @ Next Projection
- Excerpt: …while Crowe can still craft beautiful cinematic moments, he seems to have forgotten how to earn them.
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: There’s no defending Aloha, but there’s no reason to deride it, either. It’s just a forgettable film that backfires in spite of the range of talent both behind the camera and in front of it.
- [New – 9/3/15] | Thomas Spurlin @ DVDTalk
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Infuriatingly messy and opaque…so misshapen qand tonally awkward that whatever [Crowe] intended has to be imagined rather than experienced.
- Sarah Ward @ Concrete Playground
- Ron Wilkinson @ Monsters and Critics
- Excerpt: Safe and sane hip dialogue, beautiful people and a cast to die for drive this rom-com one step ahead of the crowd.
- Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
- Excerpt: Aloha is a pleasant, nonthreatening sort of romantic dramedy, in that the film mostly coasts on genre conventions and the magnetism of its lead actors.
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