The Claim 2000

Critics score:
62 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Ebert & Roeper: Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: Takes place against a frigid canvas gorgeously captured by Alwin Kuchler. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: In returning again to the work of Hardy, the director has chosen the perfect visual metaphor, placing the story in the breathtaking winterscape of the Sierra Nevadas (actually Alberta's Rockies, standing in). . Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: A languorously muted, occasionally magnificent film. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: The mixture of realism and melodrama fails to click. Read more

David Edelstein, Slate: True to its source, finding the seed of all great epics in the divisions of the heart. Read more

Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A moody, mesmerizing tale of attempted redemption, bursting with unexpected images. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Sadly the film is so elusive, so distant, that it never seems more than half-alive. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: A mournful, poetic, epic movie that lodges in the memory. Read more

Paul Tatara, CNN.com: Easily the most compelling Western to hit our screens since Unforgiven. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The cast is individually intelligent, refined, and understated. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The audience is simply left with the task of fitting together the allegory's easy pieces. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A movie like this rides on its cinematography, and Alwin H. Kuchler evokes the cold darkness so convincingly that Kingdom Come seems built on an abyss. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Moves so freely, evolves so naturally, that it's easy to overlook just how dicey an undertaking it is. Read more

Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: A rich emotional experience, ranging in degree from fire to ice. Read more

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Emanuel Levy, Variety: It suffers from a slim and fractured narrative, unengaging mode of storytelling and yet another irritating performance from Milla Jovovich. Read more

Dennis Lim, Village Voice: A numb, oddly dispassionate trudge toward predestined doom, inevitable in all the wrong ways. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: It's all there, visually speaking, yet not quite there dramatically. Read more