Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
A tortured use of another movie's absurd mythology to help make muddled quasi-satirical points, while indulging the apparently fail-safe punchline of saying the word "purge" about once a minute.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
The movie as a whole is such an incompetent train wreck, you can't look away, just to see how much worse it can get.

Name : Keith Uhlich / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Wrongheaded, utterly incompetent, and nearly laugh-free .

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Not an update of the old TV show but a revival, with dazzling sets, period outfits and wonderfully implausible action. It's an Atomic Age blast.

Name : Calvin Wilson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
This is a movie whose charm sneaks up on you, like a spy in the night.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
The picture is quite clever and light on its feet.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. feels fun even when it lacks a particular reason for existing.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
A lot of energy and effort has gone into this endeavor, and I can't say some of it's not fun. But more of it, alas, is just tedious.

Name : Lindsey Bahr / Alias : Associated Press
Alas, the movie doesn't fulfil the tease of the opening sequence. From there it devolves into a series of revelations with diminishing returns.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Composer Daniel Pemberton's evocations of early '60s "danger" music respect the period, which is more than can be said for Ritchie's hatchet-style of staging and editing.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
It's not bad but not quite good enough either.

Name : Mark Olsen / Alias : Los Angeles Times
It all winds up feeling hollow and even slightly oppressive, an enforced sense of fun jabbed within quotation marks. It aims for a silky lightness of touch but lands like a dropped slab of concrete.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
Whose idea was it to make a cold war thriller for a generation that doesn't know what the cold war was?

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
The Cold War returns full force on the big screen, though by the end of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., you might want to put it back in the fridge.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : Village Voice
Though it's made with lots of modern tricks and technology, it's old-fashioned in the best sense, and not just because it's set in the Sixties.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. plays like a lower key, vintage edition of a Mission: Impossible movie. It's a good movie with a great look.

Name : Chris Klimek / Alias : NPR
What substance it has could be dissolved in a shot glass. But so what?

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
It's slow, lethargic, utterly lacking in charm and undeserving of the Cold War setting that is its best trait.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
Cavill's Solo, and the movie, are aggressively quippy, which is what happens when screenwriters set out to be funny but give up when they're halfway there.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
It almost works. Actually, it does work, hitting the requisite number of hip notes. It just doesn't dazzle, and that's kind of a surprise.

Name : Michael Granberry / Alias : Dallas Morning News
It's got all the ingredients - improbable romances, partial nudity, ridiculous escapes - that make it little more than big-sound and big-picture fodder for the Imax screens it will appear on throughout the country.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Long on style but short on substance, Guy Ritchie's ring-a-ding-ding Cold War spy thriller attempts to resurrect a mothballed '60s TV series the way that Mission: Impossible did. It doesn't work this time.

Name : Nathalie Atkinson / Alias : Globe and Mail
Mesmerizing and clever, but more style than substance.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
The threat that this mess of a movie might be followed by a sequel is enough to make anyone cry uncle.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
This is like an Austin Powers movie directed by Wes Anderson, although Ritchie's personal style is very much in evidence.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
Exactly no one was asking for this. So it's a surprise to discover that the bar for this movie is low enough to conga under.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
Holding out for a fun summer film? Resist no longer. Just say "U.N.C.L.E."

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
This is one of those rare instances when a sequel wouldn't just be warranted - it would be welcomed.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
While it looks good - Ritchie has always been a slick visual stylist - it's ultimately as passive as an old rerun.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
a moldy 1960s TV series that comes to the screen with no Mission: Impossible update or makeover. That's right - it's still moldy. But in a way that's escapist, retro fun.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
Guy Ritchie makes the kind of enjoyably disreputable movies that are fun to watch until they're not.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
An unusually restrained Guy Ritchie serves up solid entertainment with a classy touch, but bland leads and no-sizzle chemistry make this slick '60s TV adaptation forgettable.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
It's breezy and elegant - so breezily elegant it can make you laugh out loud from frame to frame.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Ritchie is a director with no instinct for the audience, and he can't hold things together for an entire film. He seems at a loss, from moment to moment, as to what he should emphasize.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
"Man" is a celebration of a time when secret agents dressed impeccably, bantered with style, and had exceptionally cool toys. That the movie is almost instantly forgettable is part of the pleasure.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
As for Cavill, let us just say that the line between phlegmatic suavity and downright dullness is rather more easily breached than the Berlin Wall.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
With brisk pacing, and a cast this attractive parading the kinds of fashions that will remind you how much you miss Mad Men, most of the movie boasts a Mod crispness.

Name : Dave Calhoun / Alias : Time Out
U.N.C.L.E. has enough style and smarts to make it an amusingly louche summer movie: a cultivated mix of action and wit, suits and cities.