Land of the Blind

This was an amazing movie... it made me think and i could watch it a million times over and over again. The director did a great job also with the editor!!! A MUST SEE!... Full review

saw this at Rotterdam and absolutely loved it....an insightful look at the inner workings of power and corruption in an unnamed place and time....beautifully shot, written and directed....Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland, not to mention Tom Hollander, are brilliant.......this one will... Full review

If I had any complaint about Land of the Blind it's....It is sadly little information on what is a rather impressive movie, both in scale and personality.....In the beginning writer/director Robert Edwards seems excessive in the way he flails nudity and corruption.... ... Full Review

But the big picture is a mess.....As the screenplay's sour wisecracks fizzle around them, Mr. Fiennes and Mr. Sutherland play their characters without a smidgen of irony or facetious humor.... ... Full Review

Land of the Blind is set in a violent, powerful dystopia in an unspecified time or place yet appears, in costume, allusion and concerns, as if it were an amalgamation of the last 100 years. There are three prerequisites upon viewing Land of the Blind : first one needs an at least modest understanding of the contemporary political climate, particularly in relation to American foreign policy and the War on Terror; second, an ability to appreciate the films historical and literary references; and third, a lot ... Full Review

Land of the Blind is a messy, muddled mishmash of a movie that cant be faulted for trying. The dictator himself, Maximilian II (Tom Hollander), is a silly little fellow who wears oversized suits, loves basketball and action movies, and is married to a bitch of a woman (Lara Flynn Boyle) who castigates herself for not having children. ... Full Review

Land of the Blind is predictable bore Whatever failings Edwards displays as a filmmakerLand of the Blind plods along with barely a whiff of dramatic conviction towards its predictably downbeat conclusionhe's certainly done his homework on the lifestyles of the rich and tyrannical. ... Full Review

Unlike many of the recent apocalypse scenarios that have flooded theaters of late-can we go a month without seeing Manhattan annihilated or emptied of human life? ... Full Article

Every once in a while a movie blindsides me. For whatever reason some film that I haven't heard of, with a stellar cast, suddenly appears and I wonder why I had never heard of it before. ... Full Article

Terry Gilliam and Paul Verhoeven, Robert Edwards's is a concoction difficult to swallow as either piercing allegory or clever farce. In an unspecified country in an unspecified age (save for generic "Year Minus One" and "Year Three" title cards), everyman... ... Full Article

Set before, during, and after an unnamed revolution in an unknown country in an unknown time, Land of the Blind suggests that power corrupts. That those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. ... Full Article

A film review by Chris Cabin - Copyright © 2006 Filmcritic.com Not to be bested by Quills and Geoffrey Rush, Land of the Blind had the bright idea to have a scene where Donald Sutherland writes in his own excrement. ... Full Article