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Zardoz

Zardoz

1974
Sci-fi, Fantasy
1h 45m
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements. (imdb)
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Zardoz

1974
Sci-fi, Fantasy
1h 45m
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Rated 19 Jul 2018
70
53rd
Deliverance made me hesitant to go camping and to wear loose pants around Southerners ... I’m not smart enough to know what Zardoz was warning me about.
Rated 31 Mar 2007
70
42nd
roger moore was always my favorite zed
Rated 24 Jan 2011
57
22nd
If you love 70's tits you will love this film.....cause Sean Connery is sporting some wicked ones.
Rated 08 Dec 2008
60
22nd
God bless the 70s. Very campy and silly futuristic tale that, I think, has ambitions of delivering political and religious commentary, but it goes out of its way to up the ante of bizarre and absurd elements to such an extent that the initial amusement of "Wait, what?" as you see the giant floating statue head spit out guns at the beginning becomes tedious as Sean Connery force-pushes rabid eternals out of his way with his aura near the end. It is quite the curiosity item, though.
Rated 12 Aug 2011
58
34th
Considering its reputation, I found this to be surprisingly coherent. It's still balls to the wall crazy of course. Still, I was mildly entertained throughout most of it. Whatever (rightful) criticisms one can fling towards this movie, it's still a bit sad that something like this simply would never see the light of day nowadays. I'll take drugs-fueled insanity with copious naked women over family friendly blandness any day.
Rated 19 May 2012
35
20th
*Finds a box and steps up in front of the angry mob* Ladies and gentlemen! Please! Sit down, calm down! Now I know that this may be the epitome of ridiculously self-important art cinema. But if anyone - ANYONE of you - is MAN enough to propose that Sean Connery in a mankini vs. immortals isn't awesomesauce, then stand up now, or forever *rumble* Okayokayokay! Sit down everyone! Ladies and gentlemen PLEASE!
Rated 21 Apr 2013
24
25th
The Prisoner in reverse with fewer bowler hats and no numbers. Boorman appears to have a twisted obsession with life, death, and all the sex in-between, and puts his fantasies on display for all futuristic Ireland to see. Sean Connery rapes everyone from commoners to immortals to the eyes of those watching his crotch hair blow in the sweet summer breeze. The final conflict betwixt Connery's pubic fur coat and the concept of interpretative dance will scar me for life.
Rated 27 Mar 2014
68
55th
Gives new meaning to, "The Red Death." Seriously, though, how are you supposed to rate this? It's like rating the ramblings of a person that owns 17 cats?
Rated 12 Nov 2007
80
71st
I'm having a hard time scoring this movie. It's fucking Zardoz.
Rated 13 Oct 2009
61
29th
This move is a giant WHAT THE FUCK?
Rated 20 Sep 2010
85
87th
Amazing... for all the wrong reasons. If you take Fellini's Satyricon, pepper it with sequences of contemporary interpretive dance starring a confused, almost-naked Sean Connery, add a bit of gratuitous pointless verbalizations of obvious things, and destroy any and all cogency and logic... you get this hilarious comedy.
Rated 19 Dec 2010
4
38th
If, when watching a movie, you like to have answers to questions like "what is happening?" or "why?" then I'm afraid Zardoz probably isn't for you.
Rated 11 Mar 2014
74
57th
Zardoz will be movie number one in my "Haha, what the fuck" box set.
Rated 25 Nov 2006
25
9th
Warning: this movie features Sean Connery dressed in red underwear, suspenders, and boots. It is also one very pretentious movie. Or perhaps it is one crazy excuse for showing topless women. Either way, you probably won't enjoy it. At all.
Rated 02 Mar 2007
50
35th
Curious film.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
17
7th
Delightfully terrible.
Rated 12 Nov 2007
48
3rd
Age of Aquarius movies never cease to amuse me. It's more fun to laugh at than to laugh with. It has some alright ideas, but most of it is just ridiculous.
Rated 25 Jan 2008
5
0th
It's hard to find a single redeeming quality in this film.
Rated 29 Sep 2008
66
54th
It seemed a good idea at the time I guess
Rated 08 Feb 2009
50
25th
A for ambition, D for execution. Interesting primarily as an prime example of 70's filmmaking.
Rated 10 Feb 2009
78
61st
It's very kitchy 70's style...and I loved it from start to finish.
Rated 28 Oct 2009
62
33rd
Zarday 3-1-2, I took a woman in Zardoz's name.
Rated 26 Mar 2010
23
1st
i have forgotten about 75% of this one, wish i could get the other 25% to cooperate.............
Rated 28 Dec 2010
72
14th
Each set-piece comes with obvious social metaphor that you must endure with an "All right, we get it already" level of acceptance.
Rated 07 Jan 2011
81
62nd
In the future we'll all become heavy-handed metaphors. What's off-putting & refreshing at the same time 4 a dystopian genre film is that this future's sensibilities & aesthetics are as foreign as they should be. Visually Boorman accomplishes a lot w/ little & his weird is genuinely weird. Thankfully, unlike alot of arthouse this-can-mean-anything laziness, the narrative steadily reveals rather than confuses & its clear Boorman has a purpose 2 what seems like superficially random kookiness.
Rated 23 Jan 2011
80
79th
It feels like The Holy Mountain's little British brother who happened to come across his hidden drug stash. As a comedy (intentional?) I love it. As a philosophical thesis... ehhhhh....
Rated 31 May 2011
25
28th
This movie is deadly serious and thinks it is delivering important messages in clever ways. It isn't, it's incredibly stupid and pretentious but the fact no-one involved realized this makes it completely hilarious. Acting throughout is terrible, with most of the malnourished looking cast wafting about and communicating their ennui via the medium of interpretive dance. Watch it for the stone skull and moustached Sean Connery in a wedding dress.
Rated 27 Jul 2011
10
13th
What the fuck did I just watch. What a horrible and annoying movie. Connery looks friggin scary. Jesus Christ
Rated 31 Jul 2011
80
66th
A dystopian future populated with immortals, magic crystals, giant floating stone heads, and Sean Connery running around in little red shorts and a bandolier, they simply don't make them like this any more. Often silly in the extreme, and the allegorical hodgepodge is messy to say the least, but there's something charming about the sincerity of the vision. No matter how ridiculous it gets, it never gets dull. How can you hate a film with lines like "The gun is good, the penis is evil"?
Rated 21 Sep 2011
35
11th
On one hand Zardoz is the gift that keeps on giving - composed exclusively of hilariously self-important scenes with utterly ridiculous sci-fi concepts, and placing a mankini-clad Connery in the world's gayest hippie community inhabited solely by over-acting post-modern dancing extras from Caligula. On the other hand, it's hard to keep enjoying all it's absurdities for the movie's entire duration.
Rated 16 Apr 2013
80
68th
I don't get behind "so bad it's good" movies. There's moving art and numbing art. There's ambitious art and unambitious art. Zardoz is nothing if not ambitious. What fills the gap between ambition and execution, for me, isn't comedy. When I experience something wildly ambitious that never quite reaches its own potential, whether it be a film, book, or album, I am inspired. Zardoz is ambitious and confusing and refreshing and absurd all at the same time. I did not find it funny.
Rated 12 Feb 2015
3
24th
Sporting knee-high leather boots, a giant red diaper, and a Zapata moustache that's ready for blood, a mutant Sean Connery pistols his way through layers of reality, inseminating and murdering everything and everyone so that DEATH can prevail and give meaning to LIFE. I about spit my water out when the whole Wizard of Oz reveal thing happened. Watch it stoned as hell, obviously. Plz don't watch this sober. Note: script possibly written in an Irish forest while tripping on shrooms.
Rated 04 Jun 2015
18
2nd
I can certainly see the film's point regarding the useless complacency of first-world colonialism. But Zardoz just has the most mundane, unadventurous, uninteresting way of telling its story. It has no spectacle whatsoever, and it scarcely has anything remotely climactic. You have to really try to make this much gratuitous nudity this boring.
Rated 03 Jul 2015
54
46th
I'm curious how Boorman's pitch for prospect investors looked like. "I have a brilliant idea for a movie! But first here, put this blotter under your tongue, then we will talk!". It's campy, psychedelic movie of the highest caliber. That's not to say it is actually good, just weird as hell. And funny! Here's an actual quote from Boorman about Zardoz: Um, it was the 70's, and I was doing a lot of drugs. Frankly, even I'm not entirely sure what parts of the movie are about.
Rated 28 Dec 2016
63
43rd
I can appreciate the amount of imagination that went into this film, whatever else it many and continuous failings might be. The society of eternals was fascinating, particularly the disease of apathy and the punishment of aging and endless senility. It's bonkers and has plenty of crazy hilarious moments( mostly around sex and penis talk), never letting up on entertaining on a "what the hell" level
Rated 11 Aug 2018
13
1st
WTF? This movie is really weird and makes no sense. It is hard to see why anyone involved thought this movie would be a good idea.
Rated 20 Jan 2019
3
9th
One of those terrible bucket-list movies that's worth a watch if only to witness Sean Connery sport that ridiculous mankini. Wish it had been a Monty Python-style parody but instead takes itself too seriously and ends up being lame, boring and all together forgettable. Except for that ending, which is easily one of the most hilariously awful scenes ever committed to celluloid.
Rated 01 Nov 2020
46
9th
RIP Sean Connery - Bizarre and mystifying sci-fi is THE HOLY MOUNTAIN with most of the objectionable content removed; the ultimate timidity of the execution undermining some of the interesting ideas in the screenplay - the curse of immortality, conflicts between the savage and civilised etc. Connery spends most of the film looking as alternately confused and dazzled as the audience - beautiful location shooting and imaginative set design can only carry this so far.
Rated 11 Sep 2021
46
27th
It's not that this movie doesn't make a relevant point of social commentary. It's that it makes way too many points, as many as John Boorman could think of, enough points to clash and contradict and make it entirely opaque what this movie is trying to say, or in fact if it is trying to say anything in particular about anything - tho to be fair, there's not a moment where you're not aware it's saying *something*, even if that's just "I'M SAYING SOMETHING!!!" Fascinatingly weird but ineffective.
Rated 02 Feb 2007
79
61st
Devo confessar que a primeira vez que o vi achei campy demais, não só por conta do vestuário, mas também o roteiro e direção, agora na maturidade vejo que era um produto de seu tempo, mesmo continuando visualmente campy agora pude ver uma distopia altamente coerente e vilanizada injustamente. Claro, alguns momentos são terríveis de degustar, mas alternam com outros ótimos como a belíssima sequência final que utiliza Beethoven lindamente. Darkflix TV.
Rated 25 Feb 2007
80
58th
boorman loses it. hilarious.
Rated 30 Mar 2007
40
23rd
Not good, but who can forget, "The gun is good! The penis is evil!"
Rated 23 Jun 2007
84
62nd
OK. It took watching it four times but I really think this film has one of the best commentaries on society in sci-fi. However, until you watch it four times, the first fifteen minutes are at least worth watching.
Rated 30 Jun 2007
45
31st
No other director thinks so much with his testicles, and this is the best example of Boorman doing what Boorman does.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
65
28th
just wow
Rated 19 Sep 2007
68
19th
what?
Rated 29 Sep 2007
10
0th
The single most ridiculous image I can think of in film: that giant stone face comin at ya (narrowly beating out Godzilla shooting backwards on flame jets or The Ape giving us all the finger; I mean, at least both of those only happened once, not over and over again).
Rated 03 Apr 2008
25
17th
It took me many viewings to find out that this wasn't utter rubbish. It has far too many ideas, all of which are ridiculously far fetched and none of which really fit with each other. On top of that, they're mostly badly executed. However, if you look closely (and I mean REALLY look), you'll see that there are some good, even absolutely great parts lying under all the rubbish. It takes a lot from you, but even though it's not a good movie by any account, I found myself strangely appreciating it.
Rated 28 May 2008
70
22nd
Completely nonsensical bollocks, or the deepest movie around? You decide. There's a lot in there, but it's hard to get out unless you're willing to pull hard. Sean Connery in speedos.
Rated 18 Jun 2008
70
67th
Acid trip sci-fi. It's cheesy, badly dated and completely ludicrous. I loved it.
Rated 25 Jun 2008
65
18th
Nope. I tried. I cannot get around his, er, uhm...What DO you call that outfit? It's kind of like a wrestler's unitard, yet somehow less classy. Maybe it's just a tard.
Rated 07 Oct 2008
60
58th
The moustache is evil.
Rated 16 Nov 2008
70
37th
Is it a good movie? No. Should you watch it just for Connery on overalls and all the drugs the entire cast and production seem to have done? Definitely.
Rated 01 Jan 2009
60
43rd
Ridiculous and kind of boring sci-fi movie, but fits in with the 70s slow sci-fi genre.
Rated 05 Jan 2009
85
30th
Bizarre
Rated 13 Feb 2009
50
16th
A theoretically good premise coupled with the worst possible execution in every possible way. I cannot fathom a means by which they could have butchered their idea and muddied the point any further. Incredible.
Rated 13 Mar 2009
50
39th
Weird. Visually striking.
Rated 20 Apr 2009
50
40th
Not timeless, but fun in that early 70s sort of way.
Rated 24 Apr 2009
81
81st
"Visually dated, but definitely worth a look."
Rated 17 Jun 2009
50
18th
I'm shocked! I thought I was the only person who'd seen this movie, well except for my friend who watched it with me.
Rated 26 Sep 2009
90
92nd
Pretentious, dated, full of gratuitous nipples - I loved it!
Rated 10 Nov 2009
65
51st
Lolwut. It's a cool premise which in execution blends great and interesting ideas and scenes with the awful and needlessly bizarre. I did enjoy it for all its madness though; it would make a good companion to Logan's Run in a double bill.
Rated 01 Dec 2009
50
18th
One of life's great mysteries.
Rated 05 Mar 2010
27
2nd
Wanna see Sean Connery with a bad moustache in a wedding dress?? Then watch this movie! It's weird... I still cannot really grasp its content. Sometimes it's awfully funny, and sometimes it's only awful. Too many tits without a purpose... maybe the director's commentary on the dvd will enlighten me... - no, it didn't.
Rated 07 Jun 2010
40
17th
You might as well stop after the first 10 minutes, it never gets even nearly as awesome again.
Rated 18 Jul 2010
30
1st
Hilariously bad.
Rated 02 Aug 2010
65
36th
Hahahaha Sean Connery has never been sexier than he was in Zardoz. Laughably executed and one can only hope the ambitions in this movie was for hokes- it brings on a level of entertainment quality exclusive to its own.
Rated 10 Aug 2010
59
61st
I need to rewatch this, but I don't think I'll gain a greater understanding.
Rated 12 Aug 2010
0
3rd
I got about 15 minutes in and bailed. Like James Sbardellati film!
Rated 23 Sep 2010
58
33rd
Weird psychedelic sci fi movie. Lots of nudity and chest hair and weird costumes. A real headscratcher, worth it if you want something campy and unusual.
Rated 27 Sep 2010
5
80th
I don't even know where to start.....
Rated 19 Oct 2010
68
27th
Red Speedo: 96
Rated 07 Nov 2010
92
97th
I know the rating's high, but the last time I dropped cid (dec. 93) this was on tv. For years afterwards I was saying it was all wrong wrong wrong to see Connery with really long white hair riding naked on a horse while your periphery is all silvery and your jaw is clenched. After years of recovery from that viewing, and further rumination, I've come to realise, however, that it's best not to be a "renegade", and Charlotte Rampling was hotter than I initially thought. W-I-C-K-E-D spaceship!!!
Rated 12 Dec 2010
10
8th
Not a lot to it and a relatively poor plot.
Rated 09 Jan 2011
66
24th
A horrible excuse for a sci-fi movie, and an inconceivable role choice for Connery. This movie's plot is just one big acid flashback with ill understood inclusions of existentialism and philosophy folded in. There is almost nothing in this movie worth while, except for a bit here and there of the domed community and the last couple minutes.
Rated 19 Mar 2011
33
17th
Stands out as one of the most carelessly random pieces of trash ever released by a major director.
Rated 23 Jun 2011
88
36th
Been trying to find this movie for many years. Definitely strange but a reasonable sci-fi action movie. I'd say probably too way out there for most though.
Rated 05 Aug 2011
67
29th
After hearing this movie was bad, I watched it and was pleasantly surprised with about the first half of it, but by the middle and end especially I realized... I didn't care for the characters. I didn't find that it made much sense, and so with no value to the film, I was disinterested. ... Connery was nice eye candy, that's about it for the high points of this film.
Rated 22 Nov 2011
100
98th
unbelieavably eccentric and very campy... but so stimulating, so ahead of its time (digital frames, enhanced reality, etc) has so many wonderful references and a great vocal soundtrack with Beethoven 7th...the touch-teach scene is unforgettable
Rated 25 Nov 2011
35
4th
Imagine if Monty Python started making a sci-fi film in the 70s and at some point decided to make a serious, pseudo-philosophical movie; now, imagine the look and feel of *Logan's Run* and *Flash Gordon* ('80)and you'll get a sense of this movie. It isn't a incoherent and batty as some made me believe, but it's hard to take seriously or stomach, too (unless the above description appeals to you). (probable score: 60)
Rated 15 Apr 2012
65
22nd
On the one hand it's god awful. On the other hand it's brilliant. Within madness lies truth. From its over indulgences can be garnered empathy. With chaos comes understanding. It is an allusion. An illusion. Amusement. A trick for someone else's bemusement. The Great and Powerful Oz would be proud.
Rated 30 Jun 2012
45
20th
Love the concept; somewhat undermined by art direction, editing, costuming.
Rated 26 Aug 2012
78
50th
This gets slammed a lot, and fairly so. Still, it is fun 70's science fiction (and blew my mind as a teenager).
Rated 29 Apr 2013
67
25th
Well, that was weird. Several 'arty' scenes. There's probably a message in there somewhere.
Rated 29 Aug 2013
50
2nd
50 points for the presence of Sean Connery. The rest for the film itself.
Rated 04 Jan 2014
60
45th
Awesome art design in it's own way and I even liked the story more than I probably should. Story has high ambitions but it doesn't quite succeed. Few scenes run way too long in the second half of the movie and they kinda ruin the mood.
Rated 19 Mar 2014
49
37th
i like its bold personality, but it is self-indulgent, undirected and flat out confusing.
Rated 04 Apr 2014
50
30th
The best description I can say about this movie is that it's insane.
Rated 06 Apr 2014
60
17th
Zardoz wasn't offensive and that might be the best compliment I could give it. After hearing stories about the movie for years, I think I had been over prepared for the opulence of this movie. It is opulent, not in design, though the design is very striking; it's mainly the story. Zardoz is a product of it's time. I did like parts of the story. I liked the commentary on current society and how it "could" change in very scary ways in the future. I would like to watch it again.
Rated 25 Apr 2014
25
17th
One of the most boring films I've ever seen. I got about half way in before skipping around. He finds a book. Woo.
Rated 29 Apr 2014
19
3rd
Eh, I gave up after half an hour.
Rated 16 Jun 2014
70
31st
A bizarre mixture of gorgeous shots with hideous flower-child costuming and plastic set design. Should have been directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Rated 01 Dec 2014
50
16th
The worst part of Zardoz is that there is actually a germ of a good movie somewhere in there, somewhere way, way down.
Rated 16 Feb 2015
10
1st
"The gun is good and the penis is evil." - opening line of Zardoz's autobiography
Rated 05 Sep 2015
60
40th
tabernacle!!!
Rated 14 Apr 2016
55
17th
you have penetrated me, Charlotte Rampling. All things considered, the opening scene (not the prologue with the floating narration) is a banger opening. An over-the-top snoozefest unless you're drunk and have friends watching alongside you. Watch Ghost's "What's In My Bag" video and that's where I got my viewpoint of the film.
Rated 26 Apr 2016
30
8th
Hahahahaha ooooh Charlotte Rampling hahahahaha mmmmmm Charlotte Rampling hahahahaha
Rated 24 Jul 2016
72
32nd
Not as much of a trainwreck as I expected, it's actually a pretty decent 70s sci-fi movie. Certainly a bit cheesy, but fun enough.
Rated 19 May 2019
50
35th
50 crystals!
Rated 04 Jul 2019
20
4th
When introducing a new world in a fantasy movie I feel the need to be eased in yet wowed. Instead I spent most of this movie being bored just like the Apathetics or just wondering WTF was going on, since things seemed to be confusing for confusion's sake. I'll chalk it up to failed execution of good ambition. Fav scene: the ending?

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