The Last Days of Man on Earth, (1973) otherwise called, The Final Programme. It was directed by Robert Fuest, and co written with Michael Moorcock, Spoiler alert I will be talking about the movie. But first, first impressions. Its an English movie, I do not remember it theatrically released, It slipped by me. I found it rather like The Prisoner, on acid. or like the movies that Mike Myers spoofed with his Auston Powers series. It was made two years after,"Zabriskie Point" British films were going through this "thing" about being offbeat. It was never taking itself serious, Oddball music, snappy dialogue, and deliberate "artistic" set ups played out, with little plot to go on. The movie stared Jon Finch, as the ruffle shirted, Jerry Cornelius, It is suppose to take place in the future, Never depicted, but referred to in the film, was the Third World War. It didn't seem to phase any of the goings on in this movie.
Jerry is the surviving son of a great inventor, who before he died, developed a computer program called the " Final Programme", It would bestow upon one person, immortality, with the knowledge of all mankind. The created being could reproduce itself, and do all kinds of other nutty things, like rule the world.
Mrs Brunner, played by Jenny Runacre, leads a group of scientists who want the programme, for their super advanced computer, that looks rather like a copying machine. Sterling Hayden is also on board. How do we know the film is tongue in cheek ?,
"Heard they bombed Amsterdam, about time they did something right"
The problem being, if the film does not take itself seriously, why should we care, as clever as it all is the plot is obscured. For a while though its a fun ride, with an anything can happen, openness, About three quarters of the way in, you may be glancing at your watch. Truly an oddball film, ranks high on the "strange movie", List. Production values were OK, it says it was shot in Technicolor, Maybe, but not the print I caught. I thought it looked more like a BBC television production. Some nice exterior shots, and totally senseless band music. I give this film Seven out of Ten Psychedelic Stars. . .
Jerry is the surviving son of a great inventor, who before he died, developed a computer program called the " Final Programme", It would bestow upon one person, immortality, with the knowledge of all mankind. The created being could reproduce itself, and do all kinds of other nutty things, like rule the world.
Mrs Brunner, played by Jenny Runacre, leads a group of scientists who want the programme, for their super advanced computer, that looks rather like a copying machine. Sterling Hayden is also on board. How do we know the film is tongue in cheek ?,
"Heard they bombed Amsterdam, about time they did something right"
The problem being, if the film does not take itself seriously, why should we care, as clever as it all is the plot is obscured. For a while though its a fun ride, with an anything can happen, openness, About three quarters of the way in, you may be glancing at your watch. Truly an oddball film, ranks high on the "strange movie", List. Production values were OK, it says it was shot in Technicolor, Maybe, but not the print I caught. I thought it looked more like a BBC television production. Some nice exterior shots, and totally senseless band music. I give this film Seven out of Ten Psychedelic Stars. . .