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I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

It's pretty odd how the ratings for this movie here aren't that high, but there actually are a lot of positive reviews. I guess I'm with the people who genuinely enjoyed it, even though it wasn't great. I think it's mostly because of how outright beautiful this film looks. I mean, the way everything is shot just makes it look authentic and it seems to be a great tribute to the old film serials. Granted, I don't think I've ever really seen any of those, but this certainly looks faithful. Anyway, this movie begins with giant robots appearing (always a good start) and people investigating to see where they came from.I admit that the dialogue isn't that good, but there really are some pretty good characters in this. I really did find myself rooting for the relationship between the male and female lead. The way they bonded was actually quite cute. I think the film's length was good, even though the pacing could have been better. I was glad I saw it and even though I would not quite recommend it, it was enjoyable. It's not that great of a story but for me it was a fun little film that was at least above average. It had pretty creative ideas even if they weren't executed that well. ***

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004): Dir: Kerry Conraan / Cast: Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Giovanni Ribisi, Angelina Jolie, Laurence Olivier: Exhilarating visual treat about future and opportunity. Filled with fantastic visual imagery from towering robots to hovering spacecrafts but its best asset is its film noir appeal giving it a black and white image with tainted colour. The world's top scientist disappear and reporter Polly Perkins is determined to crack the case. She is joined by aviator Sky Captain whose bravery knows no limits. Inventive storytelling with debuting director Kerry Conraan adding an interesting Noah's Ark reference where the villain aims to steal two of each animal to board onto a rocket. Jude Law is superb as the daring Sky Captain who dives head on into danger without thought or regret. Gwyneth Paltrow as Polly brings intelligence as well as humour particularly in the final scene in a joke regarding her camera. Giovanni Ribisi tries to crack codes while keeping contact with Sky Captain. Angelina Jolie as a daredevil fighter pilot complete with eye patch is a nice touch matching Sky Captain's daring enthusiasm ten times over. What is truly daring is the computer animated imaging of Laurence Olivier who has been deceased since 1989. He receives acting billing here, which is remarkable. Excellent adventure taking flight in its references to noir and old serials. Score: 10 / 10

"Sky Captain" Joe Sullivan (Jude Law) is a free-lance fighter pilot who works to protect New York City. When a series of heavily armed robots begin to attack the city, Joe winds up working with Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow), a newspaperwoman who obsessively searches for the next best thing. The robots attack Lower Manhattan by flying through the skies before making strong landings on the ground below, smashing through the streets and destroying everything in sight. The robots are a product of Dr. Totenkopf (Laurence Oliver), a World War I scientist who has been working towards the ultimate goal - the fabled idea of world domination. His robot henchman are looking to take every civilian out who doesn't comply with his plans; Sky Captain is assisted by Franky (Angelina Jolie), a sexy fighter pilot who looks to assist him in tough predicaments as well as Dex Dearborn (Giovanni Ribisi), the head of research and development for Sky Captain's many planes.Such is the wacky premise of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which would've made for a fantastic pulp novel about fifty or sixty years ago. This is one of the quirkiest but most charming films to released in the 2000's, as it's the kind of film that needed to catch lightning in a bottle several times to even be made. However, thanks to writer/director Kerry Conran's persistent drive to shop the film around, finally coming in contact with producer Jon Avnet and then the production company Aurelio De Laurentiis to finance it, Sky Captain evolved into a $70 million studio gamble that was, to be fair, lucky to see the light of day.This is the kind of film that seems destined for critical and financial disaster (and only the latter became slightly true). Sky Captain is one big homage to the action serials of yesteryear, being shot with monochromatic sepia filters to replicate the feel of a grainy, pulpy adventure being shown through a shoddy film projector. It was also the first major film to be shot almost entirely on a digital backlot, which has actors acting before greenscreen sets (now a pitifully common practice), with Sin City following a year later. Sky Captain is not a known commodity either, not stemming from any line of comics (although it could've fooled me by its look and story) nor any preexisting media property. With that, this film was a gigantic leap of faith that turned out modestly well.To begin with, I absolutely love the look of the film. The monochromatic filters, the blatantly artificial backgrounds, and the action serial-feel in the pacing and suspense all pay a cheerful homage to a genre we don't see anymore. I'd shell out money for a film like Sky Captain much faster than a contemporary action property, where scenes don't even last three seconds and camera angles muddle the action to make the chaos indistinguishable. This is a film with a beautiful look, assuming the looks of a city-based 1920's film like Metropolis, the perilous quick-cuts of a 1930's action films like King Kong, and a gritty 1940's film noir like The Maltese Falcon throughout its one-hundred and six minute runtime.Law and Paltrow also drum up likable chemistry throughout the film; they assume their roles nicely, with Law probably being the only actor who should play a fighter pilot by the name of "Sky Captain" and Paltrow really nailing the news-obsessed reporter taken along for a ride by the coattails of a masked crusader of the sky. With the visual feast and the enjoyable banter between the leads taking place, it's hard to initially see Sky Captain's core issue. To be fair, I was gearing up to write a positive review up until I realized something gravely troubling.For a film decorated with classic special effects and a nostalgic look, despite using new technology, the story here is stunningly simple and unengaging. Some may claim that it's adhering to the story of the simplistic page-turners from decades gone past, but in the modern age, there should be at least a bit more meat and substance to the story. And if not, a basic plot line like the one used here could work as a satire of the genre. Yet, through all its silliness and its routine plot, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is serious in its story and that's a frustrating thing when the story is lacking as it is here.At the end of the day, though, it's hard to clamp down on Sky Captain too much. It does something that's totally brave and foreign to contemporary cinema; the fact that this film got past the talking stages is an unprecedented achievement for present-day Hollywood and Conran himself, who wasn't working off any nepotism whilst pursuing his dream to get this film made (he shot a cheap short film in his living room to shop to producers). If you can forgive a fairly weak story and embrace the acting and the visuals, there's no good reason to skip Sky Captain - there's your recommendation within a kinda/sorta nudge in the other direction.Starring: Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, and Laurence Oliver.

Simply awful, what has started as a very promising movie with some nice new sic-fi ideas ended up as one of those Cheeseburger/Cowboy movies, full of clichés and non-logical events, dialog (oh specially that one, it simply can't get worse) and even story, that can't be considered Sci-Fi, it is a cheeseburger rubbish.The super cowboy who is super self confident and super brave and super "in control" who is also supposed to be super funny is - again - saving the world, of course while saving his own girl who is also super confident, super smart, super funny, and she is fighting entire armies without even breaking her high heals shoes !!! amazing ... keep on that Hollywood ... another 1 out of 10 movie, just because zero is not available.