It opens at fever pitch and then starts soaring -- into genetic fantasy, into a precognitive dream of delirium and delight.

| Aug 16, 2014

It's got Russell's trademark eccentricity (read: slight bonkers-ness) all over it, which you may take as a warning or a recommendation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2014

As the proceedings briskly fly, the silliness of the entire endeavor becomes more readily apparent.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 23, 2010

Direction by Ken Russell has energy to spare, with appropriate match-up of his baroque visual style to special effects intensive material.

| Jun 6, 2007

There isn't a lucid moment in it (and much of the dialogue is rendered unintelligible by Russell's subversive direction), but it has dash, style, and good looks, as well as the funniest curtain line since Some Like It Hot.

| Jun 6, 2007

[Director] Russell's noisily grandiose swipe at psychedelia embellishes what is no more than the cosily familiar story of the obsessive Scientist Who Goes Too Far and Unwittingly Unleashes, etc.

| Jun 24, 2006

I was overwhelmed, I was caught up in its headlong energy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Dependably -- even exhilaratingly -- bizarre. Its strangeness, which borders cheerfully on the ridiculous, is its most enjoyable feature.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2004

An uneasy blend of the extreme visuals of director Ken Russell and the bloated dramaturgy of writer Paddy Chayefsky.

| Mar 10, 2003