The Caveman's Valentine 2001

Critics score:
46 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Ebert & Roeper: Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: The new film confirms that Lemmons and Jackson are a movie team made in heaven. Read more

Dallas Morning News: Loaded down with laughable caricatures and a plot as confused as its protagonist. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Burdened by sloppy plot turns and unbelievable characters. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Works as everything but a mystery, yet it is intriguing in a number of ways. Read more

David Edelstein, Slate: Mostly good fun. Read more

Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A work whose visual assurance is undercut by a script that's sometimes as ludicrous as it is ambitious. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Watching the film, it's easy to imagine how a novel might make the unlikely plot machinations less ludicrous. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: There is pleasure in giving oneself up to the gusty swirls of the film's imagery, and especially to the handsome grandeur of its star. Read more

Ray Conlogue, Globe and Mail: This is a commercial film with limited ambitions. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: Operatic chimera and gumshoe grit make for uneasy bedfellows. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This 'thriller' is more likely to lull viewers to sleep than to keep them on the edges of their seats. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's remarkable the way Jackson begins with the kind of character we'd avert our eyes from, and makes him fascinating and even likable. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Hovers somewhere in that never-never land of movies that try to do too much and don't quite live up to any of their ambitions. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: The plot lines that follow are so convoluted and ludicrous that one just gives up piecing it all together. Read more

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: The Caveman has lapses of logic, but fewer than you will find in George Dawes Green's improbable script. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Falls short of its serious aspirations by a very long way. Read more

Amy Taubin, Village Voice: It seems like the kind of art film that might have been dreamed up by a feverish high schooler. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Intriguing, visually startling. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Jackson's convincing portrayal of an untethered psyche scrambling for purchase on the slippery slope of sanity and Lemmons's arresting cinematic vision, in which we see the world through the eyes of a man continually descending into ...madness, is enough. Read more