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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Anita Gates, New York Times: Wing Commander is based on a video game and has roughly the same degree of character development. That is all most moviegoers will need to know. Read more
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: Excruciatingly earnest yet convictionless. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The plot has all the depth and originality of a video game without the fun of the interactivity. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: These actors, alas, are at the service of a submoronic script and special effects that look like a video game writ large. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Things get truly dispiriting when the character dramas recede and the spark provided by Lillard and Holder goes out, leaving us only one incomprehensible battle after another. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: As the movie transforms into a video game -- with a faux John Williams score to boot -- the human element turns corny, then laughable. Read more
Godfrey Cheshire, Variety: Though the ingredients are potent, their blending here mostly comes off as formulaic, humdrum and sometimes unintentionally laughable. Read more
Athima Chansanchai, Village Voice: Though this could be the meat of a good space story, the combat scenes are weak variations of the game's. Read more