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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumIt doesn't have the polish or the momentum of an Indiana Jones adventure, and isn't too engaging on the plot level, but at least the filmmakers keep it moving with lots of screwball stunts.
- 40TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThis one may be just excessive enough to develop a cult following. It also proved quite popular with German audiences, for reasons we've been unable to fathom.
- 38USA TodaySusan WloszczynaUSA TodaySusan WloszczynaIt ends up choking on a never-ending stream of inept gags... A worst-case scenario of wackiness gone out of whack. [24 May 1991]
- 25Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneBoring and banal, overwrought and undercooked, Hudson Hawk is beyond bad. [24 May 1991]
- 25San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJust awful… There is probably not one interrupted 60-second stretch in which a line of dialogue doesn't clunk, an action doesn't ring false or an irritating plot turn doesn't present itself. [25 May 1991]
- 20VarietyVarietyA relentlessly annoying clay duck that crash-lands in a sea of wretched excess and silliness.
- 20Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesAustin ChronicleKimberley JonesEverybody figured producer Joel Silver and Willis couldn't lose and guess what? They all rolled craps.
- 10Washington PostWashington PostMerely airheaded where it should be lighthearted, Hudson Hawk offers a klutzy, charmless hero, and wallows dully in limp slapstick and lowest common denominator crudeness.
- 0Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThis may be the only would-be blockbuster that's a sprawling, dissociated mess on purpose. It's a perverse landmark: the first postmodern Hollywood disaster.
- 0Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranEven Willis seems a bit bewildered at times, as if asking himself how he managed to get into such a mess. [24 May 1991]