The moustache is evil.

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!!!

A for ambition, D for execution. Interesting primarily as an prime example of 70's filmmaking.

Hilariously bad.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

roger moore was always my favorite zed

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm having a hard time scoring this movie. It's fucking Zardoz.

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.

It's very kitchy 70's style...and I loved it from start to finish.

Red Speedo: 96

One of life's great mysteries.

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.

what?

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.

I don't know how people aren't amused by this. Perhaps it wasn't intentionally funny but it manages to be better than any Monty Python movie.

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

boorman loses it. hilarious.

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

It's hard to find a single redeeming quality in this film.

DNF

Bizarre

Love the concept; somewhat undermined by art direction, editing, costuming.

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.

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

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)

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.

This move is a giant WHAT THE FUCK?

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

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