The Mosquito Coast Critic Reviews

Weir's orchestrated The Mosquito Coast's action to match Fox's progressive mental state, from rage to explosion to squalls and finally to hurricane velocity; however, the film leaves us not with an apotheosis, but exhaustion. [26 Nov 1986]Read the full review

The Mosquito Coast is the only movie you'll see this season that has too much ambition for its own good - its subject, really, is nothing less than the American experience.Read the full review

It is hard to believe that a film as beautiful as The Mosquito Coast [adapted from the novel by Paul Theroux] can also be so bleak, but therein lies its power and undoing.Read the full review

As a persona of epic polarities, [Harrison Ford] animates this muddled, metaphysical journey into the jungle.Read the full review

The movie has been directed and acted so well, in fact, that almost all my questions have to do with the script: Why was the hero made so uncompromisingly hateful?Read the full review

The picture's blandness - and hollowness - is startling when you consider the collaborators. [26 Nov 1986]Read the full review