Brian Gilcrest discusses longing and looking up to the future as a boy. He is then seen in military uniform, but then relates how the billionaires took over in 2008, so he left the military and took a job as a contractor, working for Carson Welch. Brian messed up in Kabul, but is now going back to Hawaii, a second chance. A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs - the US Space program in Honolulu, Hawaii - and reconnects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
3 April 1958, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
17 November 1978, London, Ontario, Canada
21 September 1950, Wilmette, Illinois, USA
30 May 1966, Kabul, Afghanistan
June 10, 2016
Half the time while watching Aloha, I had no clue what was going on. Not so much the plot -- although I was admittedly a bit muddled on that, too -- but why anyone acted the way they did.
June 02, 2015
It's not bad so much as alien, like a romantic comedy made by someone who's researched human behavior but had very few brushes with it in person.
May 29, 2015
Filmmaker Cameron Crowe can't catch a break with Aloha, a Hawaii-set romcom that is a handful of stories struggling for a unifying tone, but is nowhere near as toxic as its advance buzz.
January 21, 2016
The whole story is a tangled mess. Aloha sees itself as a quirky, funny, and sad, but loudly announces when it's trying to be those things.
May 29, 2015
It comes at us in choppy bursts of brilliance and dopiness. That is at once its great charm and its great curse.
April 08, 2016
A curious twist on the body swap comedy, with its talented creator and stars ostensibly pulling a switcheroo with a group of exponentially less talented people.
March 26, 2016
It's hard to know what anybody involved in this misbegotten mash-up was thinking, other than 'Hey! The shooting location's in Hawaii!' (The state looks beautiful here, but that's a bit like saying Sharon Stone was attractive in Basic Instinct 2.)
May 06, 2016
Aloha is Hollywood's biggest Hawaiian wreck since Michael Bay sunk those ships in Pearl Harbour.
May 28, 2016
It seems less that Crowe's gifts have escaped him than that they've become disproportionate with his excesses, and we're less forgiving of those trespasses.
March 10, 2016
A mess of a romantic dramedy full of colonialistic offensiveness, forced quirkiness, implausible emotion, and oblivious masculine self-centeredness.
June 04, 2015
Even if this were well made in a technical sense, it would still be a weird heap of patriotism, astronomy, and Hawaiian folklore, piled atop a pat and predictable love story.
May 29, 2015
Aloha is a great-looking movie with just enough bright spots to get us past the cloudy moments.
