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Description: Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy - Science Fiction / Theatrical Release: 1974 / Director: John Boorman / Actors: Sean ... more
Zardoz (DVD) ... Connery, Charlotte Rampling ... / DVD released 30 June, 2003 at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PAL, Widescreen / A box office failure at the time, John Boorman's 1974 cult science fiction film Zardoz is an entrancing if overly ambitious project that 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. 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. --Paul Gaita

Newest Review: ... plods on in a melancholy way. Enter Sean Connery, wearing a very dodgy moustache, as a sexist couldn't careless character ... more

 ... who turns the colony on its head and soon faces retribution by the authorities. He entered through the Vortex via a flying stone head sent by the 'Eternals' who are Immortal. The society is ruled over by 'Eternals' who have become bored with a life of the same old same and are sick of things remaining as they are. The females initially consider him a brute but soon are attracted to him. And he to them which is not surprising as they all walk around completely naked! The film carries on much in this sometime ludicrous a...more

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Maximus-Qualitus
Premium Review Zardoz (DVD): 'the wiZARD of OZ' (358 words)
by - written on 11/06/09 (Very useful, 46 readings)
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Zardoz. ======= A 70's Sci-Fi film that over the years has become something of a classic. The movie opens with a disembodied head floating around and setting the premise for the forth coming movie. Set in a post apocalyptic society that has a 'Vortex, around itself to keep the savages and 'Riff Raff' out. It is a utopia society where no one questions "reality" or the authorities and everything just plods on in a melancholy way. Enter Sean Connery, wearing a very dodgy moustache, as a sexist couldn't careless character who turns the colony on its head and soon faces retribution by the authorities. He entered ...  Read the complete review

fromage
Premium Review Zardoz Speaks To You (2104 words)
by - written on 27/08/04 (Very useful, 526 readings)
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I cannot remember exactly the first time I experienced the sublimely odd dystopian vision that is John Boorman's 'Zardoz'. I can pin it to some point in my early to mid teens, when I had so much spare time that not only did I get to watch all of the films that I taped within six months of recording them, I often watched them more than once, and sometimes, indeed, many, many times. I watched Zardoz many, many times. For a long time it was my very favourite film. Not only did I watch it time and again, I would extol its virtues at length to my friends, and, ultimately, make them watch it time and again. And although, in the decade and a bit since my teenage ...  Read the complete review

Mauri
Crowned Review Zardoz (DVD): Sex Is So Passé (1478 words)
by - written on 07/07/04 (Very useful, 362 readings)
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Over the decades this film has achieved cult status but at the time of release it was universally derided, so is it a misunderstood Sci-fi classic or possibly the worst Sci-fi movie of the 70's. THE STORY In the year 2393 Earth is scary mixed up place. Three kinds of people have evolved, the Brutals little more than savages eking out a meagre existence in the outlands a barren, environmentally scarred landscape with little in the way of resources to live on. Keeping order and the population down in number are the aptly named Exterminators. The outlanders worship a god named ...  Read the complete review

 
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