- 7
...a slippery, effective new version...
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 7
...a slippery, effective new version...
—Michael Phillips Los Angeles Times
- 7
I'm delighted to tell you that the new Thing was made by people who understand what the horror audience wants and don't treat it like a bunch of brain-dead children. Mirabile freakin' dictu.
—Andrew O'Hehir Salon
- 6
Part horror film, part space thriller and all gore-fest, the movie ends up being a lot like its protagonist: a mess of a monster that stretches itself too thin to scare much.
—Scott Bowles USA Today
- 6
... provides such graphic and detailed views of the creature that we are essentially reduced to looking at special effects, and being aware that we are.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 6
While it could never match the brilliance of its forbearers, it finds a way to stand on its own...mostly.
—Bill Gibron filmcritic.com
- 6
...has...a welcome hint of dour Scandinavian sensibility sneaked in by director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. whenever there's a pause in the unexceptional antics of aliens consuming humans.
—Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly
- 5
Like the creature of the title, it offers us a juiced-up but inadequate copy.
—L. Thompson E!
- 5
...an efficient, if entirely graceless, piece of horror filmmaking.
—Jesse Cataldo Slant Magazine
- 5
—Todd McCarthy Hollywood Reporter
- 5
Misshapen, malodorous and firing its grubby tentacles across the room in a feeding frenzy...
—Kyle Smith New York Post
- 5
...at least has a strong lead thesp in Mary Elizabeth Winstead, recruited for the studio's bid to turn a tale of ice-cold macho paranoia into a beauty-vs.-beast shocker a la Alien.
—Rob Nelson Variety
- 5
One gut-busting death after another, terror giving way to tedium. Your call.
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 4
For a film that takes place in such a cold locale, it all feels awfully warmed-over.
—Tasha Robinson Onion AV Club
- 4
This debut feature from Matthijs van Heijningen is as stiff as the Antarctic tundra. Where the earlier film pulsed with precisely calibrated paranoia and distinctly drawn characters, this inarticulate replay unfolds as mechanistically as a video game.
—Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times