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Zardoz

Sean Connery (Actor), Charlotte Rampling (Actor), John Boorman (Director, Writer) Rated:

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Genre	Science Fiction
Format	Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Contributor	John Alderton, Daisy Boorman, Niall Buggy, Bairbre Dowling, Bosco Hogan, John Boorman, Jessica Swift, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, Sally Anne Newton, Christopher Casson, Reginald Jarman, Sean Connery See more
Language	English, French
Runtime	1 hour and 45 minutes

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An exterminator of Brutals lands in the Vortex and mates with an Eternal in the year 2293. Directed by John Boorman.

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A bewigged Sean Connery is Zed, a savage "exterminator" commanded by the mysterious god Zardoz to eliminate Brutals, survivors of an unspecified worldwide catastrophe. Zed stows away inside Zardoz's enormous idol (a flying stone head) and is taken to the pastoral land of the Eternals, a matriarchal, quasi-medieval society that has achieved psychic abilities as well as immortality. Zed finds as much hope as disgust with the Eternals; their advancements have also robbed them of physical passion, turning their existence into a living death. Zed becomes the Eternals' unlikely messiah, but in order to save them--and himself--he must confront the truth behind Zardoz and his own identity inside the Tabernacle, the Eternals' omnipresent master computer.

A box office failure, John Boorman's Zardoz has developed a cult following among science fiction fans whose tastes run toward more cerebral fare, such as The Andromeda Strain and Phase IV. An entrancing if overly ambitious (by Boorman's own admission) film, Zardoz offers pointed commentary on class structure and religion inside its complex plot and head-movie visuals; its healthy doses of sex and violence will involve viewers even if the story machinations escape them. Beautifully photographed near Boorman's home in Ireland's Wicklow Mountains by Geoffrey Unsworth (2001), its production design is courtesy of longtime Boorman associate Anthony Pratt, who creates a believable society within the film's million-dollar budget. The letterboxed DVD presentation includes engaging commentary by Boorman, who discusses the special effects (all created in-camera) as well as working with a post-Bond Connery. --Paul Gaita

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ John Boorman
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 45 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 27, 2001
Actors ‏ : ‎ Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton, Sally Anne Newton
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 3.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Studio ‏ : ‎ 20th Century Fox
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000059HAE
Writers ‏ : ‎ John Boorman
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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P. Whiting

So bad it's almost good

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 5, 2023

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This is an awful movie, but it's so 70s camp that it's hard to stop watching. Bare chested Sean Connery in shorts and a pony tail, trying to figure out what's going on. A bunch of fancy pants pseudo-hippies living in a lovely bubble world while the "barbarians" outside suffer. Old folks isolated & pretty much crazy. Every dystopian trope rolled into one chaotic bundle. Worth watching just for the cinematic history and awful special effects.

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Robert I. Hedges

Caution! You Are Approaching The Periphery Shield Of Vortex Four!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 28, 2008

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Master of understatement John Boorman (better known for the execrable howler "Exorcist II: The Heretic") teams up with Sean Connery in a ponytail wig and diaper to beat the audience over the head with subtlety and nuance. OK, seriously though, this is a heavy-handed and over-acted attempt at cerebral science fiction that pontificates on subjects like religion, inequality, and human nature.

Sean Connery is Zed, an exterminator charged by Zardoz (a faux-god residing in a giant, floating, gun-vomiting head) to eliminate the savage "brutals" in this nightmarish future world. The movie is steeped in pretentiousness from the annoying floating head introductory narration to the incredibly stilted dialogue, of which follow several random examples: "I am innocent of psychic violence!", "No! I will not go to the second level!", "Shall I seek vortex consent?", "We will touch-teach you and you will give us your seed.", and of course, "The gun shoots death and beautifies the earth...Zardoz has spoken!" The entire movie prattles along like that, and contains other unintentionally comic elements such as Zed being frightened by a Jack-in-the-Box (really), Zed discovering an inter-vortex exchange holograph (don't ask), Zed getting the stuffing beat out of him by a bunch of demented geezers at the senility home, Zed teaching the "eternal" women how to kiss, thereby reintroducing desire and emotion to the world, and of course, Zed battling refracted light in the funhouse challenge inside a giant computer-crystal (again, don't ask).

I am not totally down on the film, I just think it fails as serious science fiction, and becomes a parody of the genre, despite Boorman's commentary track extolling its virtues. The special effects are very basic: the floating head is, for instance, simply suspended from a crane, while in one key scene Zed obtains a secret power enabling him to make the film run backwards.

The film is enjoyable as a camp classic, but is lacking as a serious movie (it was also a commercial flop), despite pretensions to be enlightening. Especially onerous is the predictable ending which is even more lamely executed than expected. The film was made in Ireland (Boorman's home) and as such does have some lovely landscape and scenery to recommend it; further the cinematography is generally quite good. The film is let down by trying to do too many things at once, and consequently doing none of them well. The pacing is frequently plodding, the acting is middling at best, the costumes are more hilarious than anything in recent memory (again, Connery's costume is justification enough to buy the movie), the morality of the film is preachy and heavy-handed, while the script is way over the top and utterly laughable. The most pretentious scene in the film (and one of the most pretentious I have ever seen) is the discovery of the true identity of Zardoz by Zed when he is learning to read. (Hint: I don't think that Frank Baum would be especially pleased.)

I recommend the film to science fiction completists and fans of camp everywhere: you will seldom if ever find a better example of unintentional humor in a desolate future world than in Zardoz.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 20, 2023

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You have to understand, it was the early 70s. I saw this at a midnight screening in college. Both whimsical and intellectual, this is mostly a hoot, and shaggier than Sean Connery's chest hair. But it made me fall in love with Beethoven's 7th. And Charlotte Rampling. Fun spotting the John Boorman tropes.

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Thats some sweet bad movie goodness.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 2, 2023

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Wow, even worse than Barberella. An amazing and possibly drug fueled romp into nonsense-land.

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Heather Quick

Futuristic Sci Fi Movies

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 23, 2023

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I rented and watched this 70s flick and could not believe how good it is!! This may be my new favorite movie, I am going to buy it!!

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Robert Morris

This was... really good!?!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 1, 2020

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Some review I read of this stated that this was what most sci-fi looked like before Star Wars... a little porny, super weird, dumb costumes, etc. The review meant this as an insult, but watching this, I think we may be ready for some post-Star Wars sci fi.

To be clear, everything that has caused this movie to be ridiculed for decades is 100% on point. The dialogue is often clunky and absurdly pretentious. The costumes, the commune, the sex obsessions, the effects and a number of other aspects of the film are super stuck in the 1970s. But most of this... holds up. The films meditations on immortality, super abundance, and our inability to handle high technology sensibly are very on point. And I think those meditations are getting more and more relevant by the year. Finally watching this after laughing at it for decades, I can see how stealthily influential it has been. And as janky as it all looks, if you are in a forgiving mood, some of the visuals really are quite striking.

I watched the Empire Strikes Back earlier this month, and while it's certainly stood up better on many levels, everything that has come since, in sci fi and blockbusters, kind of weighed it down for me. Perhaps because it's been so influential, it didn't strike me as having much on its mind other than the bells and whistles. Watching the two movies I find myself wondering... will Zardoz stand the test of the coming decades better than Star Wars? This thing is art. And it's good art.

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FayeB

Woefully dated

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 12, 2020

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This film has not stood the test of time. Aside from the stilted cliched 70s acting, the sets, costumes and screenplay can only be viewed through a time telescope to make sense. Only the film's premise of a future where the idle rich have separated themselves from the rest of humanity and become an apathetic bunch of nhilists holds any water. Facing the eternal ennui of immortality they set about destroying themselves just for the fun of it. Sean Connery puts in his usual solid performance, which raises it above the dreck but the rest of the cast wander about spouting bizzarre dialog in a completely muddled plot. I got the impression it was written by someone who had been living in a hippy commune for a couple of years and became so disallusioned and pot addled they just wanted to kill everyone. A wish fulfilled in the movie (oops, spoiler alert). A bit like the sixties, you had to be there to understand it.

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J waddell

Good for all the wrong reasons

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 19, 2022

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One of the funniest films I’ve ever seen.

It’s not supposed to be a comedy but it’s absolute gold. Sean ‘James bond’ Connery running around in his undercrackers whilst a floating decapitated head spouts weapons whilst broadcasting “guns are good, the penis is evil”. Yep it’s as bonkers as it sounds.

S. Bowater

The pennies is evil! The gun is good!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 19, 2017

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Why do I like this movie so much! Could it be because of the choir singing Beethovens 7th Symphony, large talking stone heads, psychotic men wearing nappies shooting everything in sight, I don't know, but I love this totally bonkers movie

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clint bond

What's it all about Sean? (Alfie).

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 16, 2021

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What a load of waffle, especially as the director did the marvelous Deliverance movie. There's no comparison, and even though this is an old movie, it sent me to sleep.
However, Sean Connery was excellent, and must have enjoyed working with all those scantily clothed females!

Dave, York

Erm....still dont know

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 8, 2012

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Recommended by my partner we bought this to add to my increasing collection of odd ball cult films
I can see why it bombed at the box office, a very strange and indulgent film by the director Boorman, odd casting and budget special effects. John Alderton in a very strange role
I would recommend a purchase and viewing, it's baffling but cosy too, the reference to the Wizard of Oz being predictable
Must say after watching it on copious amounts of Vodka it got better than when sober!
Not a film to watch with your mother in law!

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