The Fisher King

Just channel surfing and found this. Great movie. Robin Williams doing what he does best. A nut playing a nut. Jeff Bridges does a great job as a cynical disc jockey. I will share this one with my friends in case... Full review

Never in my life have I seen a movie 33 times with 4 or 5 times being my maximum;however, I broke this with Fisher King. The first dozen times I saw it I saw something new--another layer-if you will. I feel... Full review

I saw this movie on tv a few days ago and it was a total mess. First of all the movie makes hardly any sense at all one day he is afraid of Robin Williams character and the next minute he... Full review

This movie is crazy,literally.It has good acting, with Robin Williams acting as if he was on LSD.The story and plot was bewildering til the end, when it all came together.There was one part of the movie,I didnt really get.Other than that... Full review

Jeff Bridges plays Jack Lucas a former shock jock whose throw away statement was taken to an extreme when a listener walks into a bar with a shotgun and kills some of the people there. One of them is the wife... Full review

This is a bizarre movie directed by Terry Gilliam, the guy who did the animation on Monty Python’s Flying Circus. The background of the story is New York City in the early 1990’s. Robin Williams plays a crazy homeless man as... Full review

This is a movie that is worth watching on DVD... Because it was very inspirational taking the account that sin has its redemptive values. I never expected that such a boring name for a old movie turned out to be what... Full review

Great acting and a fantastic story makes this one of the "must see" movies frmo the 90's. It's a very compelling and emotional film that can be watched again and again.... Full review

Even with some powerhouse performances by Robin Williams, and Jeff Bridges, this film flounders in the water, some of the shots are also angled in a nice way, but unfortunitly the screenplay is filled with pull off's of classics that don't... Full review

very few are the movies i can watch ANYTIME!! this is one! this movie brings together a creative, interesting story with well thought out characters, excellently developed and given complex relationship dynamics! the director ties all this together with stunning visuals... Full review

The imagery is stunning, and as per usual Gilliam utilises all manner of special effects techniques to get the job done, from forced perspective to prosthetics to CGI. This is the tale of a young girl that finds fantasy in actual horror, and one could hear the audience groan whenever the real world consequences were revealed. ... Full Review

One particularly gory scene does a fantastic job of bringing the horror of Perry's trauma home..... ... Full Review

For all of The Fisher King 's surface conventionality, though, Gilliam can't resist the temptation to live up to the legends. That match game provides The Fisher King with its most potently charming moments: It's a charge to see Gilliam for once applying his talents to human-size material. ... Full Review

That is not true, the ending contains an essential element of the Grail myth and it wraps up the underlying conflicts of the film in a very neat and satisfying manner. The performances in the film are wonderful. ... Full Review

When the film is funny, it's very funny. Plummer is so realistic in her characterization of a plain She obviously loves Bridges, but he's too self-absorbed to notice. The resulting tragedy sends Bridges into a deep depression. ... Full Review

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Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, Time Bandits) was at the helm of the movie and, I thought, this was a good thing. I expected his usual flair for divinely inspired absurdity as well as visuals that would stun me into ... Full Article

Terry Gilliam may not have had the smoothest of directorial rides (just check out Lost In La Mancha), but he has put together some truly memorable movies. ... Full Article