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Plot: 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 e...( read more read more... )normous 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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  • 1.0 Star
    MCT:
    June 9, 2008
    Stilted and horrible, filled with English faggotry. Connery is type-cast as an animalistic, macho boor in red diapers.

    I guess I'm not sorry I saw it once, but I'm wary of being forced to see it again.
  • 1.5 Stars
    MCT:
    May 10, 2008
    Snore fest. Tried to watch this on two different occassions and fell asleep both times. ZARDOZ wants you to sleep!
  • 1.0 Star
    MCT:
    April 28, 2008
    Pretentious, preachy, crapfest that proceeds to have Sean Connery run around in a red diaper for what seemed like an eternity.

    This film is not laughably bad. It's painfully bad. I hope everyone involved was payed very, very well. I demand reparations.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    April 17, 2008
    After the entertaining beginning, it's really slow paced and boring for about 30 minutes, then it picks up and is entertaining till the end.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    April 16, 2008
    Totally craptastic film. You have to see it to believe it..and seeing Sean Connery in a red loincolth is worth the torture!
  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    February 19, 2008
    This is a freakin oddity, in sci-fi. Seeing is only beleiving. I cant call this film good but its a curious watch.
  • 1.5 Stars
    MCT:
    January 25, 2008
    A flying stone head that barfs out firearms to a near naked Sean Connery wearing a long que ponytail and moustache? Something for the boys and the girls, so make it a cult classic date movie, dont forget the popcorn...
  • 2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    December 15, 2007
    So this is what happens when you give a director free reign after they make a really good film about rape, kayaking and banjo-playing.

    You get, apparently, Zardoz.

    While it is worth watching sheerly for the odd imagery, this movie feels way too much like an extended version of the final sequence of "A Boy and his Dog"

    So, to clarify: take one part Wizard of Oz, another part Planet of the Apes, and mix it in with the 1960 Time Machine. Then put Sean Connery in it.

    Some say there is a good deal of philosophy supposedly going on in this movie. For me, it seems more like someone face-planting while still talking incoherently the whole way down. Philosophic? Sure. Confusingly pompous? Absolutely. A happily cheesy movie otherwise? Yep. So if you want to see Sean Connery flying around in a giant stone head that spits out guns to horse-back riding asexuals in the far future... well then, apparently this is your movie.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    December 1, 2007
    I know everyone thinks this movie is god-awful, but i think its pretty bad-ass. One of the craziest movies of all-time.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    November 17, 2007
    I just out of couriosity watched this old si-fi movie. It was pretty good and a bit wierd. So if you like futuristic sci-fi movies, you may like this one. No cussing in it but for you guys, there is lots of naked breasts.
  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    November 10, 2007
    the first 15 minutes is the only excitment in this movie. Unless you like sci -fi or really bored, dont watch it
  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    October 21, 2007
    i did not think much to this at all, it was not really anything to my liking and sean connery what was you thinking
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 16, 2007
    An interesting and very surreal Sci-Fi movie, one of those that belong to the same category as "Happy World" and "Soylent Green". Get the DVD and watch Connery as you probably never seen him before.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 15, 2007
    Before CGI or the special effects we've come to expect, "Zardoz" reaches levels of mythology and philosophy that go beyond 99.99999999999 % of movies.
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    June 12, 2007
    Brilliant imagination, very interesting, thought provoking. Although too ambitious for some people. Not an easy film to like, but seriously good if you invest the time into it.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    May 23, 2007
    Rated as one of the top 10 worst films of all time, Zardoz is either obscure genius or pretentious bullshit! I still don't know which!
  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    May 7, 2007
    My foot is not for sale, but poops can be dark or green. That doesn't make much sense, huh? Neither does Zardoz.
  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    May 6, 2007
    sean connery should have been punched in the penis for even thinking about being in this piece of crap
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    April 25, 2007
    Sean Conery stars in this odd SciFi movie that has the world divided into barbarians and the elite who know not of death. Sean somehow finds his way into "The Garden Of Eden" and learns about the Elite who in return want to know how to die. See in the "Garden" death has been banished, and people just continue to grow old and never die...never.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    April 4, 2007
    Sean Connery en bobettes rouges et bottes aux genous qui butte des gens en veston-cravate à cheval sur la plage...ça vaut la peine d'être vu!
  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    March 6, 2007
    I suppose if you want to see Sean Connery in skimpy leather, you have a reason to see this film. Otherwise, don't fail to miss it!
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    February 10, 2007
    this movie is so fucking amazing for its time and ONE guy did all the writing, producing and directing
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    February 5, 2007
    A little shlocky on the special effects, yet the mind games which go on in this movie, not to mention the whole message of it, the movie was ahead of its time. Besides, we get to see a hunky, furry Sean Connery naked for a second, woof.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    February 5, 2007
    I have an affinity for this movie. Despite the fact that Boorman fails to even articulate what he was doing with the film in the dvd commentary I got the idea and it was a superb attempt of artisitc licence

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  • Rated: (R)
  • Directed by: John Boorman
  • Genres: Art House & International, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Cult Movies
  • Released: January 1, 1974
  • DVD Released: March 27, 2001

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