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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Washington PostHal HinsonWashington PostHal HinsonThe movie is pure hound, but you'll want to catch Short's every pixilated move. He almost made me wish that the picture would never end.
- 50Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThis is Short's picture, and though he can do no wrong in it, he is not in a position to carry the whole thing. His fans will dutifully trek to it, laughing at his skill and wondering when Hollywood will finally do him justice. It's a hell of a good question.
- 50The New York TimesCaryn JamesThe New York TimesCaryn JamesMartin Short can do anything, it seems, except find the right movies to star in.
- 40Time OutTime OutA misfire.
- 38Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertPure Luck is a bad movie, all right - with leaden timing, a disorganized screenplay, and stretches where nothing much of interest seems to be happening.
- 38Boston GlobeJay CarrBoston GlobeJay CarrThis take, like so many Hollywood takes on French comic originals, is diligent, but, with too few exceptions, irredeemably soggy. [09 Aug 1991, p.42]
- 30Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovPure Luck manages to deliver only four decent laughs in its entire 105-minute time.
- 25TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineDanny Glover is an adequate straight man, as both Lethal Weapon pictures demonstrate, and Martin Short can certainly be funny. But they don't really play as a team; you get the feeling that their sheer physical disparity--tall, dark-skinned Glover and tiny, red-haired Short--struck someone as so inherently funny that it didn't matter that the two of them don't ignite comic sparks.
- 25Chicago TribuneDave KehrChicago TribuneDave KehrPredictably impersonal and uninspired.
- 16Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanJust about unwatchable — a numbingly repetitive farce in which the cursed Short trips, walks into walls, trips, spills an entire saltshaker onto his breakfast, trips, sets people on fire, trips…