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Portando al massimo le mitiche aspirazioni dell'umanità, nell'anno 2293 gli Immortali, che sono i ricchi, i potenti e gli intelligenti, per mezzo del massimo ottenibile dal progresso scientifico e tecnologico, hanno costituito in Vortex un'oasi di asfissiante immortalità. Accanto a loro vegetano per sempre gli Apatici (i disadattati) e i Rinnegati (incoerenti condannati a perenne vecchiaia). La colonia viene nutrita dai Bruti, schiavi che lavorano la terra, dominati con violenza dagli Sterminatori, che tuttavia, sono Mortali come i loro sudditi. Tutto il sistema è retto da due invenzioni di Arthur Frayn: il Cristallo (o tabernacolo o cervello di quanto avviene in Vortex) e Zardoz (una divinità di pietra, volante, dispensatrice di ordini e di armi per gli sterminatori). Zed, mortale sterminatore che brama tanto avventura che verità, introdottosi in Zardoz con un trucco, riesce a penetrare anche in Vortex. Uccidendo Frayn, scuotendo la coscienza di Amico, ridonando fremiti sessuali a May e Consuela, dispensando la morte al Vecchio e alla sua corte, infrangendo il Tabernacolo, Zed distrugge l'illusione e dà inizio nuovamente alla vita umana secondo le leggi della natura.
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61 of 64 people found the following review helpful
By P. Sanders
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Lets make no mistake: Zardoz is a British sci-fi film from the early 1970s. Let that sink in for a moment before judging this odd little curio too harshly. You may have heard about Zardoz - yes, it's from Sean Connery's oddly "forgotten" period (somewhere between James Bond and Highlander) - the same period in which he starred in the dark classic "The Offence". And, yes, he does run around in a vaguely nappy-like costume (but he still looks all smouldering and hirsute, which is good). Yes it has dated. And yes it is pretentious, smart-arsed, a bit confusing and thoroughly loopy, like a lot of dystopian '70s sci-fi. But after all the dreck that followed (the admittedly classic) Star Wars in 1977, I think these are lovable qualities. It's time to give Zardoz a big hug, for all its lumpy, smart-arse pretensions.
Zardoz is simply unlike most other sci-fi. It's set in a sterile future, but this future is in lush countryside, not a grim rainy city or lots of white corridors. Some future inhabitants of Earth live in an apparent idyllic paradise, but to do so they manipulate the rest of the world into barbaric warfare - they give guns to a warrior class who murder, rape and enslave the general population. The upper class see themselves as peaceful hippies, but what they do to others and their own dissenters is unspeakable.
John Boorman's direction is fascinating. Some of the visuals are still stunning - the iconic flying stone head (which really ought to be on the DVD's front cover), the projecting ring, the colourful costumes - and there is actually a lot of humour in this film. It's also funny to see sci-fi featuring a world full of well spoken RP accents! Connery is a fascinating leading man - is he a curious hero? A rampaging threat to society? Or an animal, just out for himself?
Watch and see. If you care about "serious" science fiction (and why not, once in a while), then put down your plastic light sabre just for a few hours and watch something REALLY unusual.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Arch Stanton
Format:DVD
The future. A violent people ride around on horseback wearing nappies, worshipping a flying stone head that spews out guns so that they can be in charge of birth control for the rest of the population. But one day, one of the exterminators hides away in the head and goes on an existential magical mystery tour, back to where the head lives.
Super sci fi from the 70s, with Sean Connery running around with a pony tail, in a nappy, trying to look tough. The British cast are really good. The effects are all kaliedoscopic and trippy and although its a bit pretentious, the story is solid enough, with enough cool ideas and twists to keep the viewer interested up to the climax. Charlotte Rampling is always a joy and theres more two faced mad men, wearing nappies in this than your average tory after dark soho party..!
It has been said that this is a love/hate movie, all i would say, is that if you like science fantasy films, then you'll find a lot in this of merit, as its probably never received the credit it really deserves.
4.5/5 stars, as always, rounded up.
The UK dvd is lacking in extras. A nice bluray anyone?
Super sci fi from the 70s, with Sean Connery running around with a pony tail, in a nappy, trying to look tough. The British cast are really good. The effects are all kaliedoscopic and trippy and although its a bit pretentious, the story is solid enough, with enough cool ideas and twists to keep the viewer interested up to the climax. Charlotte Rampling is always a joy and theres more two faced mad men, wearing nappies in this than your average tory after dark soho party..!
It has been said that this is a love/hate movie, all i would say, is that if you like science fantasy films, then you'll find a lot in this of merit, as its probably never received the credit it really deserves.
4.5/5 stars, as always, rounded up.
The UK dvd is lacking in extras. A nice bluray anyone?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I have to admit I did enjoy the film, though at times it was a little too stuck in its era. But perhaps that was why I enjoyed it. I have descibed it as 'a long weekend in the country with some heavy acid' to friends, which probably means notning to those not of this era. The effects are childish and the plot while interesting not all it could be. But it is a delight to return to the 60s and the early days of Doctor Who, to give a sense of the film. Connery is as ever a smouldering delight.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great service
Not much to say really. The DVD arrived super-quick and was well packaged.
The actual film itself.... bizarre in the way only bad 70s sci-fi can be!
The actual film itself.... bizarre in the way only bad 70s sci-fi can be!
Published 16 days ago by ChristopherM
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very weird but watchable tale
Odd, cantankerous - unique storyline about the dynamic between barbarism and vitality contrasted with effete intellectuals - those stone heads were fantastic and Sean Connery is... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Duncan Howorth
5.0 out of 5 stars
sean great
loved sean connery in this film get to c mostly every part of his body and what a body it is too
Published 3 months ago by miss susan rodger
4.0 out of 5 stars
Erm....still dont know
Recommended by my partner we bought this to add to my increasing collection of odd ball cult films
I can see why it bombed at the box office, a very strange and indulgent film... Read more
I can see why it bombed at the box office, a very strange and indulgent film... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Dave, Leeds
5.0 out of 5 stars
Caution, you are approaching the Vortex periphery shield
I love 'Zardoz', but I can understand why people hate it. But for me, a William Blake-style head floating through the Wicklow Mountains, Sean Connery firing a gun straight at the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by S. Kaye-Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars
Zardoz
Arrived as promised. Another classic to add to my collection. Can now get rid of my old TV taped video.
Published 19 months ago by Jilly W
5.0 out of 5 stars
wow.
Zardoz is the most wonderfully wierd 1970s "science fiction" film I have ever seen....
but hey, sean connery in an orange nappy = hilarious.
but hey, sean connery in an orange nappy = hilarious.
Published 22 months ago by E. Oliver
1.0 out of 5 stars
ZARDOZE
IF YOU WANT TO GO TO SLEEP RENT OR BUY THIS RUBBISH,AWEFUL WASTE OF TIME,IF I CAN'T WORK IT OUT YOU WILL NOT.
Published 22 months ago by V. Pykett
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of my favourite sci-fi
I probably shouldn't think this film is as good as I do. If you are not into sci-fi films I think you will probably find it a bit boring. Read more
Published on 2 April 2011 by Mr T
3.0 out of 5 stars
ZARDOZ
When I first saw the movie, in the '70's, it was subject to the South African puritanical censorship laws of the time. Read more
Published on 21 Dec 2010 by Fred
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