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New Jersey
9 reviews
44 helpful votes
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Date of experience: January 27, 2015
Texas
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I never give bad reviews but... man! It just took me 2.5 hours to watch a 90 minute movie because of the RELENTLESS commercials. Each commercial break has no less than 8 commercials and 1/2 of them repeat... in the same commercial break. Its super frustrating and not really worth the free movies. Which is unfortunate because the movie choices arent horrible. There has to be a better way then this.

Date of experience: November 4, 2017
Oregon
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Frustrating!
October 31, 2017

I could tolerate the excessive ads... but when my remote got bumped and there was no wat to get back to the part in the movie that I left (90% in), i lost my patience. The fast forward button on the remote sent me into ads again and then a totally different movie! Not worth the price! May be $free, but I wasted hours and still dont know how the movie ends!

Date of experience: October 31, 2017
Georgia
1 review
8 helpful votes
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I have been staying away from this political cr@p by watching apps and I don't need a lecture on my life won't matter until I put Black lives ahead of mine. Take that message and go play with self. I will NEVER watch this piece of excrement app again!

Date of experience: August 5, 2020
Florida
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I have only been wirelessly streaming for maybe a year now. I have never come across an app until today with such an unstable platform. I am truly shocked that Sony actually put this out and has to this day not remedied all of the flaws and defects in the code. This is not rocket science! This is a basic platform that all of the wraps are using successfully.
I have even further shocked by the level of talent signing up to do crackle original film work, despite it's horrible reputation
IN AWE! Nothing really is ever for free!

Date of experience: September 21, 2017
Illinois
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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Now much like Megan R., I can sit through four minutes of commercials every 15 minutes, but they still better go back to the movie. Because if a person is trying to stream a movie, but the commercials just leave the person in a paused state, the streaming service will not gain anymore visitation from said person.

Date of experience: July 1, 2018
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Crackle = crapple
October 1, 2017

I use a PS4 and that stupid app always starts some dumb $#*! movie that I can't stop. I am assuming it is so they can exaggerate their view count. I just want to watch a tv show and this app makes it almost impossible. Much preferred the old GUI, will be deleting - not worth the effort.

Date of experience: October 1, 2017
Illinois
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
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STAY AWAY FROM IT...
October 26, 2015

First time I ever watched a movie on Crackle.
The videos are choppy...
Within half hour my IE11 stopped working and closed because of a malicious add on being detected.
I have been a Hulu user for 5 years and all these has never happened not even once.
I just hope I can finish watching the movie district 9 for it is not half that bad.
After that I am done with Crackle...

Date of experience: October 26, 2015
Kansas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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What a mess!
February 3, 2018

Hands down the worst designed Roku channel I've ever seen. The interface is highly confusing and unintuitive and seems to lack basic functions. Tried watching one movie on here, but it dumped out very quickly. This was after trying to figure out the interface and locking up the whole channel somehow. With so many functional channels supplying ad supported content, this is not worth it.

Date of experience: February 3, 2018
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Super frustrating!
January 31, 2016

Why does Roku even offer this substandard channel? I've been trying to watch Comedians in Cars and it constantly pauses to buffer, or just completely dumps me out of the channel back to the Roku menu. No such problems with Netflix or Amazon. And I hate the way it immediately launches into some stupid show 2 seconds after you click on the channel so you have to quickly find what you're trying to watch. The overall interface on this channel is ridiculous. Jerry Seinfeld, please switch to Netflix!

Date of experience: January 31, 2016
Florida
1 review
7 helpful votes
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This will be the first and last time we watch anything on crackle. At least if you VCR something on TV you can fast forward through the commercials and there are HALF as many. Took 3 hours to watch a 90 minutes movie. I'd rather pay $7 per month with Netflix or rent the movie on Amazon for $3.

Date of experience: August 30, 2015
California
130 reviews
427 helpful votes
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I have been watching crackle ever since sony took it over and I have to say it has much improved. I would have given it a meh awhile ago but now crackle really does deliver fun entertaining content. Because they are owned by sony you do get real hits like Men in black and you don't have to worry about downloading a virus or malware like on other sites that advertise free internet tv and movie downloads. Crackle is really free internet tv and online movies.

They do advertise original content but I haven't really got into any of their original shows. I have watched sports illustrated swimwear models show over and over though at work:)

Give this a try if you are interested in watching movies online for free. Connection speed is great and their video quality is so much better than what those free internet tv websites claim to deliver.

Date of experience: February 24, 2011
Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Plz plz more chosen
July 19, 2015

I love crackle... it crashes every show, every movie, just once tho... still a great app... plz plz make more chosen episodes, I was hooked instantly, watched all three seasons in one day... I need more episodes before I pull my hair out... I'm a 32 yr old crippled man, chosen was all that kept me going last two days... but all jokes aside, plz release a new season soon

Date of experience: July 19, 2015
bruce m.
Georgia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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There's a hundred things wrong with Crackle. If you pause a movie just a little too long it will time itself out and you have to start all over again. If you fast forward or rewind it stimulates some kind of algorithm that will make you watch 6 commercials immediately before you can resume your show. and out of 6 commercials you can count on two of them repeating themselves during that set! Too much of a hassle to watch a free movie

Date of experience: March 7, 2020
Oklahoma
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Way to many commercials and interruptions. It makes Netflix really worth the money. It's sad since they do have some good movies and content just takes twice as much time to watch all the commercials and interruptions. Don't even get started on the commercials freezing up...

Date of experience: May 22, 2017
Arizona
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I have tried to watch movies and tv shows on crackle and it is so bad. I continue to try to use and and the video drops while the audio continues to play. The movie or show will start over or just stop. I have even had to delete the app and put it back on as it will just get stuck on a black screen and not do anything. The commercials that play so often always work PERFECT! So what can I say It took me 2 hours to watch a 30 min episode of Bewitched.

Date of experience: July 20, 2012
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I love the Larry Sanders Show, a TV program (originally aired on HBO) about a late night TV program. The episode I just watched starts with 90 seconds of ads, the most annoying being a Red Cross ad, which is too bad because the ad starts to make the RC seem annoying. The ad is just too long. Then it repeats a number of times throughout the episode. Also, ads are not placed in a logical manner. If ads were spaced as they are on most broadcast TV shows then Crackle would be fine. But they are not. They intrude and turn a viewer against the product being advertised. Do advertisers know this? I can't watch Crackle because of this. Too bad.

Date of experience: December 14, 2015
Georgia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Crackle sucks... consistent with buffering. I can take the commercials but to stop playing in the middle of movie or the end, is just frustrating. I don't like to even deal with it. Good movie selection, but horrible quality. I'll stick to amazon, Netflix and hulu. I'm more patient with it, when I have a glass of wine, otherwise I don't even use it

Date of experience: July 6, 2016
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I have been a subscriber for 5 years and still have yet to sit through an entire movie or program using my PC on any browser; the playback is terrible as the audio and video misalign and the video is staggered and choppy! I do not have an issue like this on android although it does stop to buffer every 2 minuets, I know its free and its heavily trafficked but it is about time to add or upgrade those servers.

Date of experience: June 25, 2017
Oregon
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Waste of time
November 17, 2017

We spent more time watching commercials than the movie. The commercials are repetitive and pop up at the most random times. If you have remotely spotty internet connection, watching a 2 hour movie turns into a 5 hour ordeal. This app is terrible and useless.

Date of experience: November 17, 2017

Overview

Crackle has a rating of 1.5 stars from 414 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Crackle most frequently mention many commercials, streaming service and watch anything. Crackle ranks 201st among Streaming Movies sites.

service
38
value
37
shipping
8
returns
8
quality
35