Synopsis
A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
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Cast
- Bradley CooperBrian Gilcrest
- Emma StoneCaptain Allison Ng
- Rachel McAdamsTracy Woodside
- Bill MurrayCarson Welch
- John KrasinskiJohn "Woody" Woodside
- Danny McBrideColonel "Fingers" Lacy
- Alec BaldwinGeneral Dixon
- Bill CampBob Largent
- Jaeden MartellMitchell Woodside
- Danielle Rose RussellGrace Woodside
Recommendations
- 50
Chicago Tribune
Despite a blue-chip cast, Aloha is just frustrating. It can barely tell its story straight, and Crowe's attempt to get back to the days of "Jerry Maguire" and "Almost Famous" is bittersweet in ways unrelated to the narrative's seriocomic vein. - 50
Slant Magazine
After a while, the film's sing-a-song-for-the-world vibe, so buoyantly optimistic at first, becomes grating and smug. - 40
Arizona Republic
Crowe can be a great storyteller, a terrific director whose characters make us believe in them and in what they're doing. That doesn't happen in Aloha, which famously means hello and goodbye. Stick with the latter definition here. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
With the screenplay’s strained whimsy and pathos, not to mention its unpersuasive, at times incoherent musings on the politics of space exploration, Crowe squanders the star power at hand. - 40
Variety
Unbalanced, unwieldy, and at times nearly unintelligible, Aloha is unquestionably Cameron Crowe’s worst film. - 40
The Dissolve
Whatever Crowe’s ambitions, Aloha feels like a tropical transplant of past work, and an unfortunate demonstration of the law of diminishing returns. - 40
Time Out
The film is cut together with the haphazard feel of a posthumously completed record, its ungainly structure a macrocosm of the awkwardness with which the individual scenes are Frankensteined together into a lumbering monster built from close-ups and music cues. - 33
IndieWire
Equally hobbled by an amateurish script and vaguely defined characters, the movie's long list of mediocrities have an anonymous quality, as though the director has been completely reborn as a hack.
