David Bowie was born to play this role. This film is weird and wonderful, and only a slow final act keeps it from being among my favorites of all-time.

Surreal visuals and style drenched with humanity make this quite an experience. It's sometimes hard to take it all in, at times it feels aimless, but once you adjust it's very rewarding and enjoyable.

Every kind of thought runs through your head. Commercialism, God, the death of God, time, sex, human condition, alienation, love, religion, parallel characterization; road movie, man VS self, man VS the world, man meets girl, messiah. It does all of that, somehow, and more, with gorgeous cinematography and brave performances. Even it's ANTI-PACING has substance, deliberately alienating the audience - unfortunately, this also deliberately pisses them off.

"Among the most bizarre films in Nicolas Roeg's oeuvre." - Matt Noller

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Watch this movie if you want to see David Bowie's penis.

A fascinating science-fiction film with benefits from a beautiful use of imagery, stunning performances from Bowie, Torn and Clark and an intelligent screenplay which finds a perfect balance between a character study and a piece of science-fiction. It doesn't work all the time but when it does, it really is superb.

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There are some great individual scenes, and some great individual shots. But overall, I felt like the film's deliberate alienating tone didn't mesh well with the absurd content of the story. It ends up being both silly and occasionally dull.

Roeg must be the most hit-or-miss director for me. He's made two of my favorites in Bad Timing and Don't Look Now, and two of the most frustratingly laughable arthouse films in Walkabout and this.

Great alien sex scenes, crazy white women, corruptive influence of TV, wealth, corporation. 70s decor. "You know I believe Christmas is less commercial this year.

Sometimes brilliant, sometimes terrible. A weird movie, but it never felt like they were being weird just for the sake of it which a lot of these films typically do. Bowie was good, can't say the same for the rest of the cast. Has tons of beautiful naked chicks, so if nothing else thanks for that. That entire sequence with the gun was ridiculously bad. Pretty average movie that I won't watch again.

This is an odd little cult film. It stars one of my favorite artists, David Bowie, as an alien who comes to Earth in search of water for his planet. It's definitely more of an art film and I appreciate it's artistic merit. It meanders a bit but ultimately leaves you feeling satisfied. Not for everyone.

Mostly plotless. Occasionally experimental. Really, really bad.

Some stylistic flourishes don't work for me (in particular the gun scene, and the rupturing of time and space which leads to the settlers seeing the car). Also the attitude towards sex - the film seems to try to equate sex and violence - is veeeery old fashioned and conservative. And yet it's a hard film not to like. It's so earnest and youthful, and more noticeably strange and psychedelic (it's hard to look away). Also, yes there's David Bowie. Ahem...DAVID BOWIE!

Not much happening here besides unravelling the mystery of Labyrinth and finding out, after all these years, what David Bowie's package looks like.

Interesting movie, but it doesn't work quite till the end.

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