SummaryTerry Brogan (Bridges), a football player who is fired from the team, is recruited by an old friend (Woods) to track down a girlfriend in Mexico.
Directed By:Taylor Hackford
Written By:Eric Hughes, Daniel Mainwaring
Against All Odds
Metascore
Mixed or Average
42
User score
Generally Favorable
6.2
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
42
30% Positive
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40% Negative
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80
Against All Odds is so lively and enjoyable on its own terms that its genre problems, while real, are easily overlooked. Mr. Hackford's brand of glossy, romantic escapism doesn't have to work as an homage. It has a vitality of its own.
70
If not for a somewhat murky and misanthropic ending, Against All Odds would stand as a well-engineered second-try at 1947's "Out of the Past."
50
It begins promisingly.... But the film has no center, succumbs to drift, and gets away from Hackford. [03 Mar 1984]
40
This is about as noir as Pete’s Dragon, best to accept its superficiality as a boon - Hackford, at least, gives it a slick exterior - and enjoy it is a vacuous thriller and extended Phil Collins video.
30
Little remains of the original but its weakest element - its overelaborate intrigue - and Hackford seems only to scramble it further.
25
Not even a bravura performance from Woods, some steamy love scenes between Bridges and Ward, and a thrilling daylight car chase down Sunset Boulevard can pull this confusing remake out of the doldrums.
20
The result is a flat, dumbly brutal movie, full of overplotted complexity and empty of all emotional resonance, except that provided by the presence of Jane Greer (the original film's dark lady, here doing a supporting role) and Richard Widmark.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.2
44% Positive
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2 Ratings
Dec 3, 2015
5
The movie has been shot at exotic Latin American location with firing chemistry between Bridges and ward. Initial pace of the movie is very captivating however as it passing and Terry familiarizes himself with Jessie's love, movie somehow loses its beat. There is not much clarification what is the direction of the movie. And it does not stop there near the climax it gets us confused about who is the bad guy and whoever it is, is he really bad? And that is how it ends.
Sep 8, 2020
4
This is one of those few films where by the end I've been left completely let down by. The first half's alright but after that the plot goes downhill for me. Bridges and Woods give fine performances, some of the location shots are gorgeous but that's all that saves it from getting a lower rating. It's too bad, at the time I was really looking forward to watching this.
Production Company:
- Columbia Pictures
- New Visions
- Columbia-Delphi Productions
Release Date:Mar 2, 1984
Duration:2 h 8 m
Rating:R
Tagline:She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love her. Love turned to obsession. Obsession turned to murder. And now the price of freedom might be nothing less than their lives.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Stuntman Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
