Director Coppola's comeback Movie didn't break any Box-office Records. The Fact that it is an Intellectual Exercise meant it would have limited appeal. But it seems that even its pretentiousness kept it from being embraced, mostly, by Intellectuals.
It all becomes a tedious, but compelling and complex Story with Paranormal Overtones and an Artsy Production. The Movie looks wonderful as the jugglery lineage unfolds with Time Warps and Mutant wandering through a "Normal" World of War and Hydrogen Bomb Experimentations.
What brings this down is its confusing Narrative and gobbledygook grandness with more Words than necessary (especially Foreign and Lost Languages). High Minded Philosophical Insight is rushed and remains elusive. It is a Noble failure as it rides its High Horse and fails to connect with the Proletariat and it seems to be OK with that.
The Film is Fanciful fun at times but the best parts are discarded quickly, and trying to make sense of the nonsensical can make for a less Friendly Film. More rewarding than not, it is a Magnificent Muddle that is so far from the Mainstream that it gets lost in the translation.
It all becomes a tedious, but compelling and complex Story with Paranormal Overtones and an Artsy Production. The Movie looks wonderful as the jugglery lineage unfolds with Time Warps and Mutant wandering through a "Normal" World of War and Hydrogen Bomb Experimentations.
What brings this down is its confusing Narrative and gobbledygook grandness with more Words than necessary (especially Foreign and Lost Languages). High Minded Philosophical Insight is rushed and remains elusive. It is a Noble failure as it rides its High Horse and fails to connect with the Proletariat and it seems to be OK with that.
The Film is Fanciful fun at times but the best parts are discarded quickly, and trying to make sense of the nonsensical can make for a less Friendly Film. More rewarding than not, it is a Magnificent Muddle that is so far from the Mainstream that it gets lost in the translation.