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.

i have forgotten about 75% of this one, wish i could get the other 25% to cooperate.............

One of life's great mysteries.

I got about 15 minutes in and bailed. Like James Sbardellati film!

I need to rewatch this, but I don't think I'll gain a greater understanding.

Deciphering this is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces have been mixed in with a vat of jello: if you can ignore the tendency to over-think why they are submerged in the first place it's not that hard to retrieve all the relevant bits. This is the kind of sci-fi that is more concerned with concepts and portents than futuristic aesthetics, drawing from such sources as Huxley, Orwell, and H.G. Wells to warn against utopian socialism. Thought provoking and oddly rewarding.

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.

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.

You might as well stop after the first 10 minutes, it never gets even nearly as awesome again.

Hilariously bad.

DNF

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.

"Visually dated, but definitely worth a look."

Not timeless, but fun in that early 70s sort of way.

This movie will seriously fuck with your mind. Sean Connery? Yeah, at his all time low. I can't see how he managed to go on and make something like The Name of the Rose after appearing in this trash.

Zarday 3-1-2, I took a woman in Zardoz's name.

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.

Pretentious, dated, full of gratuitous nipples - I loved it!

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.

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.

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"?

"A unique oddity that has equal parts unbelievably silly cheese and interesting, mystical sci-fi. It's like an attempt was made to make this the next 2001: A Space Odyssey but something went terribly wrong."

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.

What the fuck did I just watch. What a horrible and annoying movie. Connery looks friggin scary. Jesus Christ

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)

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

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.

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.

Each set-piece comes with obvious social metaphor that you must endure with an "All right, we get it already" level of acceptance.

Not a lot to it and a relatively poor plot.

a horrible excuse for a sci fi movie, and an inconcievable role choice as a role for connery. this movie's plot is just one big acid flashback with ill understood inclusions of exestentialism and philisophy 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.

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.

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!!!

I don't even know.

Red Speedo: 96

Stands out as one of the most carelessly random pieces of trash ever released by a major director.

If you love 70's tits you will love this film.....cause Sean Connery is sporting some wicked ones.

Umm, lol?

I feel the need to write a review just so i can clarify my true feelings about this film. The movie is absurd and full of camp but at the same time its so unique and awesome you should probably see it once.

The definition of art-trash. I was falling asleep here and there but I don't think it mattered too much. Completely chaotic and retarded but also kind of charming in how much it believes in its own silly ambitions.

Delightfully terrible.