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Zardoz
Directed by
John Boorman
R
1974
1h 45m
Fantasy
,
Adventure
,
and more
5.8
49%
53%
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In the late 23rd century, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
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Cast of Zardoz
Sean Connery
Zed
Charlotte Rampling
Consuella
Sara Kestelman
May
John Alderton
Friend
Sally Anne Newton
Avalow
Niall Buggy
Arthur Frayn / Zardoz
Bosco Hogan
George Saden
Jessica Swift
Apathetic
Bairbre Dowling
Star
Christopher Casson
Old Scientist
Reginald Jarman
Death (voice)
John Boorman
Farming Brutal Shot by Zed (uncredited)
Katrine Boorman
Young Eternal (uncredited)
Telsche Boorman
Young Eternal (uncredited)
David de Keyser
Tabernacle (voice) (uncredited)
Zardoz Ratings & Reviews
ChristyLemire.com
Christy Lemire
Such a wildly ambitious misfire that you can't help but root for it, or at least feel some twisted sense of affection for it.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Boorman puts a lot of heavy concepts into Zardoz, but seems uncertain whether he takes them seriously himself.
TV Guide
TV Guide Staff
... pretentious sludge with some memorable visuals.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Weird, fatuous and tedious fantasy futuristic sci-fi cult film.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Judith Crist
[Zardoz] demonstrates how one can make a cheap sci-fi flick look like a cheap sci-fi flick by using mirrors and prisms as substitutes for imagination.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Probably John Boorman's most underrated film-an impossibly ambitious and pretentious but also highly inventive, provocative, and visually striking SF adventure.
Variety
Variety Staff
Zardoz is a futuristic, metaphysical and anthropological drama testing John 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.
New York Times
Nora Sayre
As an exercise in futuristic abstractions, Zardoz... is science-fiction that rarely succeeds in fulfilling its ambitious promises.
Gannett News Service
Bernard Drew
"There's less to this than meets the eye."
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers
Steve Crum
Pretty contrived sci-fi with leathery Sean Connery.
Los Angeles Free Press
Dick Lochte
For me, it achieves something that 2001, with all its light shows and gimmicks, did not, a satisfactory conclusion.
Cambridge Day
Tom Meek
A sci-fi curio...a more gonzo version of Logan's Run - with Connery in thigh-high boots and a "Borat"-esque G-string - as a futuristic savage turned enforcer by the elites in power...
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
The plot is so spectacularly offbeat that it's never boring, though it's routinely idiotic.
The Barb (Atlanta)
Steve Warren
A lot of good ideas have gone into the complex social order Boorman, who directed Deliverance, has created; but they've all been sacrificed to the necessity of developing a plot around them.
Esquire Magazine
John Simon
It has that homemade, backyard look we encounter so frequently in low-budget films. This is particularly damaging to a work that tries to compete with such superproductions as 2001 and A Clockwork Orange.
InSession Film
Kristin Battestella
This deserves to be watched more than once for the Tree of Knowledge osmosis, jacking into their matrix insight...
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The film is a mass of inoperative whimsies and conceits; they're imperative even on the dumbest sci-fi level, because Boorman isn't enough of a writer to make them work together.
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