Not even the most devoted Frankenheimer enthusiast will find a coherent outcome, no matter how layered it may be with admirable degrees of pure oddity and (arguably intentional) hokum.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 30, 2022

John Frankenheimer is credited as director, but given the scrambled, multiple agendas at play here, he seems to function more like a bemused traffic cop.

| Jun 14, 2022

Thanks to special creature and makeup effects by Stan Winston, the various deformed fiends take center stage, showcasing diverting designs and a decent production value.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 14, 2020

Brando's performance is enormous fun, but it's not just a joke. He's hilarious and gently mesmerizing at once, and director John Frankenheimer savvily adjusts the tone of his movie to fit Brando's daft brilliance.

| Feb 27, 2018

Roughly akin to watching a slow-motion train wreck in which the flames spread into the brush and become an out-of-control wildfire. What the hell happened?

| Aug 16, 2016

It's not to say there's not a lot wrong with the film, but rather to suggest that the chief criticisms of it being strange and "a mess" aren't among them.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 19, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 11, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | May 6, 2005

Muddled effort.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 17, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 7, 2005

An often fascinating mess, but a mess all the same.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2004

There's the obese Brando pretending to be God while dressed in gauzy white robes like a demented pope

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 23, 2004

Amazingly, Kilmer delivers an odder performance than Brando. Creepy retelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 24, 2003

In its final third, the movie goes to hell in more ways than Frankenheimer intended.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 1, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10 | May 9, 2003

The most exciting characters are killed off too early, and what we're left with is a Satan's "Seasme Street."

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 8, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2003