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Zardoz
from 20th Century Fox
starring John Alderton, Daisy Boorman, Katrine Boorman, Telsche Boorman, Niall Buggy
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Media: DVD
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Features:
- Anamorphic
- Closed-captioned
- Color
- DVD-Video
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Caution! You Are Approaching The Periphery Shield Of Vortex Four! 
Master of understatement John Boorman (better known for the execrable howler "Exorcist II: The Heretic") teams up with Sean Connery in a ponytail wig and diaper to beat the audience over the head with subtlety and nuance. OK, seriously though, this is a heavy-handed and over-acted attempt at cerebral science fiction that pontificates on subjects like religion, inequality, and human nature.
Sean Connery is Zed, an exterminator charged by Zardoz (a faux-god residing in a giant, floating, gun-vomiting... more info
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Mental!!
Great review from Polaris, if you want a "proper" treatise on this film, read that review. What I want to say is this. This film is mental! If you take elements of The Prisoner, Logans Run, A Boney-M album cover, the bit in the far future in the 60's version of The Time Machine where the Eloi live in pastel togas, some sex and mild nudity, and then add in Sean Connery in a tutu and a big massive flying head with guns coming out of it! Bloody Hell! You couldn't make it up. As other reviewers have pointed... more info
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Somewhat overwhelming
Considering a title like "Zardoz" and a cover featuring Sean Connery in what looks like a red diaper, this movie has a lot more seriousness and quality going for it. It is 70s science fiction: glitzy, ridiculous special effects providing a medium for real social commentary. The thing is, though, Boorman plays up the surreal and Carnivalesque in this movie, resulting in something closer to a fever dream than escapist fantasy. Re-introducing the social commentary results in a movie that is compelling and... more info
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Zardoz DVD 
Sean Connery is excellent in all of his movies. This vision of the future was well done, very imaginative.
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