Product: The Fisher King [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 1.0
No redeeming value whatsoever.
I *nearly* hated this film. I am a former film student, current film lover, reader, researcher, and all-around film nerd. But I just did not connect one iota with this dismal movie. I love BRAZIL and TWELVE MONKEYS, and enjoy much of Terry Gilliam's other work. But what in the heck IS this? There is 'good wierd' (BRAZIL) and then '[bad] wierd' of which this film is one example. The story seems tied together in only the loosest meaning of the word. The relationships and coincidences just had me saying "COME ON!". The film seems rambling and disjointed-maddeningly so. I also found the murder scene to be horribly jarring and unecessarily grotesque. Yeah, that's my idea of a good time...So flame me if you will, but this film is garbage. I didn't even have the opportunity to be engaged in it, it bored me so. Robin Williams in the buff. Ugh, ok. Not my idea of great film making. I kept searching for some greater idea or POINT (!) to tie everything together and I didn't find it. Granted, I only saw the film once, but if it is so bad that I have no desire to ever see it again-even for the sake of figuring it out, then a one star rating is more than appropriate. Sorry folks, this ain't what it's cracked up to be. I don't mind being depressed by a film if there is some point to it all, but here...