Arnold's best action movie in my opinion. Great storyline, certainly plausible in our future , just a fun and entertaining movie to go out and see on the big screen!

Movie was great - theater was terrible

Worth the drive to see it in the theater. Was only 12 when it came out and didn’t get this experience.

The plot, based on a Phillip K. Dick story, is ingenious; and Arnold Schwarzenegger brings an effective blend of machismo and innocence to his role. Too bad director Paul Verhoeven lets brainless violence and tricky special effects swamp the cleverness of the tale itself. [22 June 1990, Arts, p.10]

David Sterritt

Christian Science Monitor

Starts out as mind-bending futuristic satire and then turns relentless -- it becomes a violent, postpunk version of an Indiana Jones cliff-hanger.

Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

A first-rate action movie, slickly done and with so many imaginative bonuses that, for a time, it feels like a classic in the making. It's not, but it's still solid and entertaining [1 June 1990]

Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle