More emotionally accessible and lighthanded than most directors' passion projects, this is an underseen gem. At times it seems as inspired by Baraka as its more narrative-driven influences Yo Ho Ho and Princess Bride, but that's okay: the visuals are stunning, and they don't cost the movie its heart.
Had it been made ten years earlier, I imagine the Fall would have been a key text in postmodern cinema studies -- we were all obsessed with deconstructed stories back then.…
One of a long series of poorly made, meanspirited comedies staring SNL alumni that probably did as much to end 60s counterculture as Reagan, by reducing political and generational rebellion to glib nihilism. I'm half-convinced this is a CIA op. Along with John Landis, Ivan Reitman is a contender for the worst, most creatively bankrupt director of the entire era.
Post-apocalyptic adventure pulp on a vast scale. This is imaginative world-building on par with Robert E Howard or Edgar Rice Burroughs. More than just a great revenge story, along with Fury Road it actually has (pulpy) thoughts about morality and responsibility in a lawless world.
Chris Hemsworth gives a wonderfully dark comic performance. Anya Taylor-Joy is more restrained. She’s good, but doesn’t have the pure star-power wattage of Charlize Theron (just like Tom Hardy is no Mel Gibson). Like Hardy…
