Who, exactly, went to see Nic Roeg movies? People who didn't arrive at the theatre early enough to get into the Ken Russell film?
This is a Roeg fever dream starring a badly miscast Hollywood legend being dragged down by Gary Busey as Joe DiMaggio (strike one), a rando as Einstein (strike two), and Athena as Marilyn Monroe in what surely must have been the runaway Worst Actress Golden Raspberry winner from that year.
The usual Roeg p0rn impulses are here. Throw in some gratuitous and disturbing apocalyptic sequences and you get a film that is 97 per cent talky and dull, and three per cent exploitation.
Roeg's not saying anything with that final sequence, either, fanboys. He's just showing off.
This is a Roeg fever dream starring a badly miscast Hollywood legend being dragged down by Gary Busey as Joe DiMaggio (strike one), a rando as Einstein (strike two), and Athena as Marilyn Monroe in what surely must have been the runaway Worst Actress Golden Raspberry winner from that year.
The usual Roeg p0rn impulses are here. Throw in some gratuitous and disturbing apocalyptic sequences and you get a film that is 97 per cent talky and dull, and three per cent exploitation.
Roeg's not saying anything with that final sequence, either, fanboys. He's just showing off.