The complicated life and controversial suicide of George Reeves is investigated by a fictional private detective who finds that there are reasons to suspect that Reeves may not have killed himself after all. The detective also finds that there is a little of George Reeves in himself, and maybe, each of us.
In this bland, ultimately dull reimagining, the question of who killed Superman turns out to be less of a mystery than a plodding attempt at what has been done so much better before.
– Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep 2006
fresh:
... even though parts of the picture don't quite hold together, in the end, it sticks with you.
– Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com,
10 Sep 2006
rotten:
Reeves had an easy but peppy presence that was very likable, and Affleck's moroseness doesn't do him justice.
– David Edelstein,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
14 Sep 2006
fresh:
Take my word for it: Hollywoodland is well worth seeing.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
20 Sep 2006
fresh:
It's worth seeing for Affleck alone, deftly communicating the distance between the put-on cardboard debonairness of this hunk-about-town and the gnawing uncertainties beneath his Superman outfit.