Wing Commander: Critic Reviews

43%

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

11%

RottenTomatoes: 46 reviews

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Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

0

Full Review » 13 years ago
Anita Gates New York Times (Top Critic)

20

Wing Commander is based on a video game and has roughly the same degree of character development. That is all most moviegoers will need to know.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Athima Chansanchai Village Voice (Top Critic)

Though this could be the meat of a good space story, the combat scenes are weak variations of the game's.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

25

These actors, alas, are at the service of a submoronic script and special effects that look like a video game writ large.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

Excruciatingly earnest yet convictionless.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

25

Full Review » 12 years ago
Godfrey Cheshire Variety (Top Critic)

Though the ingredients are potent, their blending here mostly comes off as formulaic, humdrum and sometimes unintentionally laughable.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

25

Full Review » 10 years ago
Andrew O'Hehir Salon.com (Top Critic)

Things get truly dispiriting when the character dramas recede and the spark provided by Lillard and Holder goes out, leaving us only one incomprehensible battle after another.
Full Review » 12 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

25

The plot has all the depth and originality of a video game without the fun of the interactivity.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Empire Magazine

60

Playing up the military angle is the best move, but this and some excellent incidental effects can't completely disguise the shortcomings.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Film Threat

20

Full Review » 6 years ago
Dragan Antulov Draxblog Movie Reviews

30

[Features a] poor script, one-dimensional characters and abysmal dialogue.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Eugene Novikov Film Blather

0

At the risk of sounding repetitive, I feel angry that I have wasted a perfectly good Friday night watching something this completely worthless.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Kate Manning Palo Alto Weekly

38

Full Review » 9 years ago
Kevin Fiddler Henderson Home News (Henderson, NV)

0

Holy carp, this smells worse than my dirty Depends!
Full Review » 9 years ago
Gerry Shamray Sun Newspapers of Cleveland

20

It doesn't get any more painful than this dull flick.
Full Review » 9 years ago
John R. McEwen Film Quips Online

50

Full Review » 9 years ago
Blake Davis KFOR Channel 4 News

0

Oh my God, what a piece of crap!
Full Review » 9 years ago
Wesley Lovell Oscar Guy

38

Full Review » 9 years ago
James Rocchi Netflix

20

Sci-fi war film never gets off the ground.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

20

Full Review » 10 years ago
Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com

20

Full Review » 10 years ago
Annlee Ellingson Boxoffice Magazine

20

As an action film, Wing Commander lacks any original ideas of its own.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Sarah Curtis Boston Phoenix

Wing Commander incorporates a few new twists on the space-movie genre.
Full Review » 10 years ago