Harkins Theatres

The seating sucks. The movie detail sucks. The sound absolutely Sucks. The popcorn sucks. The management sucks. The people that go there suck. The whoppers we bought, suck. Essentially everything about Harkin’s suck. They make enough money to update the theatres but they don’t. So they leave you with a terrible experience every, single, time.

Clean theaters. Comfortable seats. Friendly staff. Concession lines move quickly.
Movie going doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. Buy a gift card for $ 25 or more and get a voucher for a free medium popcorn. Use that gift card for your movie tickets. Upgrade your popcorn to a large for $ 1.00 more. Buy the refillable cups on one of your visits and refill for the rest of the year for $ 1.50 each visit.
Harkins definitely has the best theaters in Phoenix.

Love this place! Underground so most people’s cellphones don’t work and they don’t ring during the movie! Service was quick, absolutely no wait. This theater is awesome. And CHEAP (best part of it all)

No wait, the staff was nice and friendly. The Theater was small but clean. I did like that the souvenir cups were still being sold.
I absolutely love the movie Southpaw. Not only did Jake Gyllenhaal look hot, but he is an amazing actor. My review is about the movie theater but I can’t help but mention how much I love the movie.
Best movie I’ve seen in a long time.

Nice seating, Good customer service. Buttery popcorn, it doesn’t hurt that they have plenty of good looking customer service & concession stand employees either! Will definitely be back.

As of Harkins goes this theater is a hit or miss. If its not surrounded by gang bangers or ghetto pieces of S*** trying to impress there girl eyeballing you then its a nice place to catch a movie. My recommendation is go before 4 pm and also park right in front. Cars get broken into here daily.
Also a down side is the 2 «main» movie theaters are upstairs for big movies and during the weekday they only have downstairs concessions with 1 – 2 people working. So if your at a prime movie and need a refill or need to go to the bathroom you have to go all the way down stairs and takes usually 5 min to get back to your movie.
Be safe if you travel here after dark lol

Went to this ghetto ass theatre Saturday night and will never step another foot in this place again. Damn near the entire theatre had their feet on the chair in front of them, cell phones on during the entire movie and here’s the kicker, the guy sitting next to me was SMOKING during the movie. I know this isn’t the best area in town but one would think Harkins would do a better job with the upkeep of this place and the people that frequent it.
Visit this place at your own risk, but I’m pissed I wasted my evening and money here.

I came here the other day to see the «Moses» movie. Let’s just say that the crowd at this particular showing put the «ghetto» in «Ghetto Center» I kept my eye on the loner in the aisle in front of me because I was convinced he was a theater shoot-​em-​up kind of guy. No joke… I was ready to hit the floor. And of course seated right next to me was a family with a crying baby, loud kid and adults who would not shut up.
I silently endured it despite my legendary lack of patience. I figured I asked for it coming to this particular location. I will say that about 35 minutes into the film a Harkins employee came in and asked the loud family to leave, which they did without incident.
This REALLY impressed me and showed that the theater staff actually cared about their patrons. I’ve sat in many a cinema with many a crying child or loud, obnoxious grown up children (as in over the age of 20) and I can’t recall the last time that theater staff actually stepped in and removed the annoying moviegoers, so WELL DONE! And fortunately the scary loner was just a case of my over-​active imagination.
It’s a bit of a shame that the Metro Center is still in such a state of neglect. This Harkins is very nice and, despite the crowd in this particular showing (which is in no way Harkins’ fault), the majority of people there seemed normal and just there to see a flick.
I really don’t know that I’ll be back to this location anytime soon, but I’m a big supporter of Harkin’s as an Arizona business and I almost always enjoy seeing a movie at their facilities.
On a side note, I will take Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and Anne Baxter ANY day over this disappointment of a movie. And the «God boy» REALLY freaked me the hell out!

Better than I expected.
I have been to a number of Harkins theatres around the Valley, and because this one is at Metro Center (and everyone warned me about going near that mall) I anticipated going to a 9:40pm horror-​flick here could be a nightmare (pun absolutely intended).
Older, sure. A little dank inside, sure. Fixtures and décor dated, sure. But the crowd was average, service was decent, and we had a fine time.
The ticket-​taker actually gave us a little reassurance on the film we chose, so that was pleasant.
Only suggestion I could give, turn down the AC temp a bit when the theater gets full (and when it’s a suspenseful film). A lot of hearts pumping and lungs breathing in a small theater, like whoa!

Movie night! Been here many nights and great as usual. Staff is good, concession runs a little slow, seats comfy, and prices are reasonable. Plus, never too crowded! Don’t forget your ID if you’re a student or military, they offer a discount! If you go to Harkins a lot, invest in the souvenir cup.

They don’t like to turn the lights off when the movie is on. The theater is too bright, I feel like I am at home watching a movie except I’m paying for it.

Finally made it to this Harkins to c. atch a movie today and get out of the heat. I actually kind of liked it here! The chairs seem a little old, but they have two levels, the place is clean and have a snack bar if you want some goodies.
You can also eat in the food court attached to the mall if you don’t want to pay an arm and a leg for popcorn, which is pretty cool. Staff was friendly and helpful, and the place seemed pretty busy!
This theatre is two levels, which I thought was kind of cool. half upstairs and the other half downstairs. The only thing that sucked was the escalator going down was broken! You could go up, but not down. So I waited with some other people for the elevator which took forever.
Overall a decent theatre. I catch the mantinee’s, and the staff seems to be pretty nice.

Whoohoo! My favorite Theaters! Love the Camelview and Fashion Square locations

Older Harkins, but clean and well maintained.
Parking is horrible at the mall.
Concession counter experience was good.
My Ultimate Dog was actually good. No hard microwaved bun and no wrinkly microwaved hot dog. This seems to be an issue at the other Harkins, but this was just one visit, so maybe I was lucky. The guy at the counter commented that these were the best hot dogs for the money anywhere around.$ 5 for a microwaved hot dog? Yeah right. He needs to get out more.
Sub par hot dogs are my pet peeve at theaters. A bad dog can ruin the visit.
Coke Zero tasted «off».

Harkins is still a great place to catch amovie with the reclining chairs and digital sound and screen. Their prices have gone up at the concession stand but you can buy discounted movie tickets at Costco and still enjoy soda refills but those are now $ 1.50 (instead of $ 1.00) and the souvernior cup is $ 5.00 (instead of $ 4.50) that is a $ 1 increase. Harkins is better than AMC although AMC has better prices especially in the afternoons but Harkins rules when it comes to comfort.

I like this theatre.
I go here by myself because I moved to AZ without any friends, and left my boyfriend, et al. back in in California.
There are other loners like me in there, so I don’t feel so bad. haha

O.K., I actually like this theatre, why? well because it is usually never crowded. Things are a little old and outdated, but I hate waiting in line, so this works well for me.

$ 6 movies for matinée if you buy the vip card and $ 7 popcorn xtra large with a free refill. You can return another day to get the refill. Place has new movies and is right next to the mall and has lots of parking.

Not a bad theater. The staff is friendly and the sound is ok.

Went to see Watchmen at this movie theatre when i was in Phoenix, this past weekend and i felt that this place is really nice. Staff was really nice, polite, you hardly see that. Seating was good, and the concession stand had lots to choose from, no disappointment there. I am from California, and i am use to AMC & Pacific Theatres, so it was cool to check out another chain.
If i am back in Phoenix and have the time to catch a movie, this is the place i would be happy watching it at.