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The Greatest Beer Run Ever

2022

Peter Farrelly

Zac Efron, Russell Crowe, Bill Murray, Kyle Allen ...

5.8

986

Drama. Comedy New York, 1967. To show support for his neighborhood friends serving in Vietnam, Chickie Donohue (Zac Efron) decides to travel to the frontline by himself to bring the soldiers a little piece of home — their favorite can of American beer. However, what started as a well-meaning journey quickly turns into the adventure of a lifetime as Chickie confronts the reality of this controversial war and his reunions with his childhood buddies ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"Peter Farrelly’s followup to 'Green Book' is another story of a working-class guy having his eyes opened, but it’s clunkier than its predecessor"	NEU
United States	Michael Rechtshaffen The Hollywood Reporter	"Farrelly’s loftier impulses work against the material. The result is a meandering, disjointed production that struggles throughout to find a satisfying tone."	NEG
United Kingdom	Charles Bramesco The Guardian	"Farrelly's latest commits itself to regurgitating every Vietnam cliche with the laziest possible visual diction, led by an emotionally overextended Zac Efron (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"[It] is not a gritty war picture; it’s glossy and entertaining and often fun. (...) a story that requires both blind faith and nutty optimism	POS
United States	Rafael Motamayor IGN	"[It] is a war drama with some solid laughs and a great Zac Efron performance, but a manipulative script with ugly optics and boring visuals"	NEU
United States	Jason Bailey The Playlist	"It’s not that there aren’t laughs, but the dramatic moments are so clumsily staged and played that they don’t land at all (...) The highest compliment you can pay 'The Greatest' is that the soundtrack is well-curated"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"'The Greatest Beer Run Ever' lumbers and meanders, and not just because the structure isn’t there. What we’re seeing, on a human level, is only half-interesting and rather slipshod	NEG
United States	Pete Hammond Deadline	"A character-driven drama that defies logic but makes you believe once again in the power of the human spirit"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Zac Efron does his best to exude everyman charm, but 'The Greatest Beer Run Ever' feels manipulative and glib (...) Hopelessly banal"	NEG
United Kingdom	John Nugent Empire	"Peter Farrelly's latest semi-serious effort is light, goofy and sometimes perilously frivolous. But like sharing a few beers with your buds, you soon warm to it (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Sarah Milner SlashFilm	"There's very little care put into the story in 'The Greatest Beer Run Ever', and as a result, the character choices and dialogue feel forced (...) For a movie proudly based on a 'true story', it rings false from start to finish"	NEG
Canada	Chris Bumbray JoBlo	"The straightforwardness of the movie is charming. As always, Farrelly knows how to build a film around his leading men, with Efron and Crowe better served here than they have been in years"	POS
United States	Murtada Elfadl AV Club	"Farrelly's basically suggesting that everything is (or was) okay, and nothing’s wrong (...) By questioning nothing, Farrelly offers a demonstration of his own—namely, how not to treat a complex subject"	NEG
United States	Eamon Tracy Ready Steady Cut	"Peter Farelley’s Vietnam drama offers no real surprises despite the interesting character story at the heart of it, but it benefits greatly from an engaging lead performance from Zac Efron (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
Canada	Peter Martin Screen Anarchy	"As a film, it's messy and preachy, concluding on a point that every thinking adult reached, probably before reaching drinking age"	NEG
United States	Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"Any willingness to give 'The Greatest Beer Run Ever' a pass might largely be credited to Efron... He still has some of that apple-pie Disney charisma, but it's now shaded by a hard-won maturity"	NEU
United States	Soham Gadre The Film Stage	"The one thing that could have saved this movie from being a painfully embarrassing bit of mealy-mouthed politicking over what America is really doing in Vietnam is if it were genuinely funny or satirical"	NEG
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"The intentions and performances are irrefutably sincere and noble. The execution almost always feels a little bit forced and a little bit false (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Sarah Jane Austin Chronicle	"Most of all, I’m really struggling with why this movie was even made. Yes, it’s based on a true story, but is it one that needed telling on screen (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Canada	Brittany Witherspoon Screen Rant	"[It] has problems that extend even beyond its script. The three acts don’t feel as cohesive as they should be, the war scenery/set leaves a lot to be desired, and there’s simply (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"This film felt longer than anything I've seen this year. They should have called it 'The Longest Beer Run Ever', but that would require something this movie is offensively uninterested in delivering: honesty (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Chase Hutchinson Collider	"Zac Efron does his best as he brings beer to Vietnam soldiers, but this is a movie beyond saving"	NEG

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