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Zardoz

1974

John Boorman

Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, Sally Anne Newton ...

5.4

3,025

Sci-Fi. Fantasy In the distant future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.

	Author	Review
United States	Variety	"[It tests] Boorman in three creative areas. The results: direction, good; script, a brilliant premise which unfortunately washes out in climactic sound and fury; and production, outstanding"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Boorman puts a lot of heavy concepts into 'Zardoz', but seems uncertain whether he takes them seriously himself (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"An impossibly ambitious and pretentious but also highly inventive, provocative, and visually striking SF adventure with metaphysical trimmings"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"The script gradually falls apart into a mess of philosophical pottage under the whimsically pretentious Tolkien influence. But visually the film remains a sparkling display of fireworks, brilliantly shot and directed"	NEU
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"Dodgy on every level (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Marc Bernardin Entertainment Weekly	"A silly, impenetrable movie (...) It’s only through Boorman’s comments that we can follow the threads of his high concepts"	NEU

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