Rotten
The film moves at a chug when it should put the pedal to the floor.
Keith Phipps, Slate
Dick Tracy
Their turf. Their game. Their rules. They didn't count on HIS law...
1990 · 1h 45m · PG
Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Directed by
Warren Beatty
Overview
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
63%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Beatty and his team of collaborators have heightened the vibrantly tawdry urban night world of Chester Gould's classic comic strip.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
Though it looks ravishing, Warren Beatty's longtime pet project is a curiously remote, uninvolving film.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
This has an appealing two-dimensional comic-book look, but lacks the vision to go with it, not to mention an interesting hero or a feeling for action.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Summer hasn't officially arrived yet, but it's unlikely to offer a big-budget commercial movie as thoroughly entertaining as this stylish real-life cartoon.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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