Fortunately the story of an alternative future is realised with such visual imagination and sparky humour that it's only half way through that the plot's weaknesses become apparent.
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02/09/06
Brazil (1985)
97 %
Reviews Counted: 39 Fresh: 38 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8.5/10
Consensus:
Brazil, Terry Gilliam's visionary Orwellian fantasy, is an audacious dark comedy, filled with strange, imaginative visuals.
Runtime: 2 hrs 23 mins
Synopsis: BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. Cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, the cult-favorite film is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Ian Holm
Director: Terry Gilliam
Screenwriter: Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown
Producer: Arnon Milchan
Composer: Michael Kamen
Screenwriter: Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown
Producer: Arnon Milchan
Composer: Michael Kamen
Reviews
Top Critic
Brazil serves up one of the most breathtakingly imaginative worlds ever to be put on screen.
04/18/08
Brazil -- a black comedy that remains ahead of its time -- is one of the most audacious fantasies ever made.
05/30/07
Top Critic Top Critic
Terry Gilliam's ferociously creative black comedy is filled with wild tonal contrasts, swarming details, and unfettered visual invention -- every shot carries a charge of surprise and delight.
05/30/07
Celebrates imagination as the only escape from a bleak, ridiculous, and troubled world.
08/26/04
It has visual style and imagination to burn, but it's the ideas behind it that make it a modern classic..
11/13/03
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