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Mar 15, 2012Michael rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
More Werner Herzog gloom & doom (see: COBRA VERDE) with Klaus Kinski once again, notably playing the mad hero (villain?) in the piece... zealously leading his band of explorers into a South American no-man's-land - in order to bring Christianity to bear on any inhabitants... but also to plunder its gold. Of course, Herzog's theme of nihilism is what's really at the heart of all this - and if you're not in the mood for intellectual inquisitiveness at the time you sat down to watch this movie - you're going to go 'ape' at the fact that, nothing really happens in the way of 'action'! It's a colossal bore! So, someone at OPL thought a film retrospective of Werner Herzog's movies was necessary... Woopee! How arcane! Next time - try someone more 'au currant' - like HUGO Director, Martin Scorsese. Now there's a cinema-auteur whose films are not only more relevant to today's OPL audience - there's something also 'going on' in all his movies too!