Bairbre Dowling, Bosco Hogan, Charlotte Rampling

In the distant future, Earth is divided into two camps, the Brutals and the Eternals. A plague is attacking the Eternals, causing them to have no interest in life and become nearly catatonic. The Brut...( read more  read more... )als are told that when they die they will live with the Eternals. But when Sean Connery's character, Zed, learns to read he crosses over to discover the truth, and the tenuous balance in their world is threatened.

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R, 1 hr. 45 min.

Directed by: John Boorman

Release Date: January 1, 1974

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DVD Release Date: March 27, 2001

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  • March 6, 2009
    Cocaine+hippie propaganda: this.
  • September 20, 2008
    Freaky 70s SF. I liked it.
  • January 31, 2008
    my new favorite cult film. Sean Connery running around in a diaper and several trippy scenes.
  • September 13, 2006
    Think you've seen it all? This one is almost indescribable. The lovely Rampling adds some sex appeal to the proceedings.
  • 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 ...( read more)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.
  • October 23, 2009
    The 70s, eh. Go figure.
  • October 7, 2009
    I have seen the preveiw it was strange but it connery and you have to try it, I cant find it in my town but thats not saying much.
  • September 4, 2009
    A visual feast of pre-implant breasts, a huge flying head, and an invisible forcefield. Don't be mistaken, this movie is inexplicably fab!
  • July 14, 2009
    This was my favorite futuristic fantasy from the 70s, much more thrilling or shocking than "Soylent Green" or "Planet of the Apes". For a vision of Utopia gone bad, this was true genius, and one of the few Sean Connery movies worth watching.
  • June 21, 2009
    An odd Sci-Fi movie.

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