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06/24/06
Invincible (2002)
53 %
Reviews Counted: 51 Fresh: 27 Rotten:24 Average Rating: 5.8/10
Consensus:
Sluggish and flawed, this is a minor work in Herzog's career.
Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins
Synopsis: Werner Herzog's first fiction film since 1984's WHERE THE GREEN ANTS DREAM, INVINCIBLE is based on the true story of Zishe Breitbart (Ahola), a Polish Jew from a humble shtetl who was touted as the world's strongest man. Discovered at a traveling carnival and brought to Berlin to perform in a... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Jouko Ahola, Tim Roth, Udo Kier, Ana Gourari, Gustav-Peter Wöhler
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08/12/02
A film which presses familiar Herzog tropes into the service of a limpid and conventional historical fiction, when really what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised.
08/08/02
Real-life strongman Ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders.
04/17/02
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04/01/02
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03/31/02
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By the time Papale does make it the big game, it's as if the air goes out of the movie and all Core can do is punt.
08/25/06
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08/23/06
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Edifies Herzog's preoccupation with blurring the distinction between performance and naturalism, fiction and documentary.
07/06/05
Invincible approaches history as myth, striving not to document reality, but to penetrate its tragic essence.
07/09/03
...the naivete of his performance has a humbling effect on a film that, while entirely too long and short on sizzling imagery, is meant to be taken simply as folkloric.
05/26/03
Herzog, a man of detail became enraptured with his subject and was unable to use his editing shears.
05/11/03
Blessed with immense physical prowess he may well be, but Ahola is simply not an actor. And in truth, cruel as it may sound, he makes Arnold Schwarzenegger look like Spencer Tracy.
02/13/03
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