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Metascore
7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70IGNIGNIt's a pretty awesome, ambitious and sometimes very cheesy, apocalyptic sci-fi actioner. It just doesn't hold a candle to Star Wars, its cinematic big brother.
- 58The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayMostly the film just feels too skimpy. The first third is largely taken up in establishing the nuclear devastation of Damnation Alley’s world, leaving just an hour for the heroes’ perilous road trip across lands infested with what Peppard calls “killa cockroaches.” By the time the action really gets cranking, the movie is half-over.
- 30The Globe and Mail (Toronto)The Globe and Mail (Toronto)A series of implausable adventures, everything from killer cockroaches to world-tilting flash floods, punctuate this otherwise stupid action picture about Third World War survivors. [16 Nov 1977]
- 30Damnation Alley is dull, stirred only occasionally by prods of special effects that only seem exciting compared to the dreariness that proceeded it. What's worse, it's dumb, depending on its stereotyped characters to do the most stupid things under the circumstances in order to keep the story moving.
- The film lacks any suspense or drama, and the special effects are not that special.
- 20The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinThe only real value of Damnation Alley is educational: This is the movie to see if you don't understand what was so wonderful about the special effects in, say, Star Wars.
- 20Time OutTime OutA real mess.