The Good and The Bad...

Rating: Null/10 (25 April 2001)

Catch-22 was released around the same time as (the superior) M*A*S*H with pretty much the same aim: Show the stupidity and waste of war...
Catch-22 had a promising up and coming director, the writer of the Graduate and a sterling cast backing it up... But somehow it fails. The casting here is absolutely and utterly PERFECT. Alan Arkin IS Yossarian, Charles Grodin IS Aarfy, Anthony Perkins IS the Chaplain! The whole cast is absolutely PERFECT here!
Unfortunately the film is lacking the depth from the amazingly complicated novel... although somehow remaining faithful to it at the same time!
What's left is merely a series of seemingly unrelated comedic events... Kind of like the book, except it somehow misses the books heart. Catch-22 will have you laughing out loud, amazed at the perfect acting and making you feel happy, sad and shocked as it pleases... But two days later you won't remember a damned thing about it!
An unfortunate failure, but definitely worth seeing!