Waste of time

Undescribable Perfection

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

very boring movie... not a message, not technique, nothing interesting to see. Just trying to appear a high class movie..... The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 44th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee..... Its official DVD release was in 2007. It copies some stuff from David Lynch, Korosawa, and the whole others but nothing new. Well, a lot of films don't have any interesting message, and you watch, just to be entertained, This movie even doesn't have that. The reason I didn't like this movie is that it tries to appear like a high class movie, which is not. It looks like a c**t in a temple, just inappropriate.

This Spanish language film I spotted because it was featured in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, I wasn't sure what I would make of it before I watched, but I am glad I did. Basically El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky, also writing and directing) is the cowboy riding his horse with his naked six year old son riding with him, and they are burying childhood photos and objects in the desert sand to make the boy a man. Journeying back they come across a massacre of blood and bodies, all killed by bandits, and deciding he is something of a God he decides he should get revenge for these people, including killing the fat bald Colonel. After leaving his son in the care of some monks, El Topo rides off with Mara (Mara Lorenzio) whom the Colonel kept as a slave, and she encourages him to kill four guns-men to be the greatest in the land, but he ends up feeling guilty afterwards. After being shot by another woman and Mara abandoning him he is dragged away by some dwarfs and mutants, and years later he is in a cave full of deformed outcasts who have made him their God. They only have one way out of the cave, and El Topo decides to help them escape, and he also forms a lover relationship with a dwarf girl, and then he wants money for dynamite. El Topo's grown up son finds him and threatens to kill him for abandoning him, but after he allows the outcasts to get out, and he succeeds in creating an exit that all the people flood out of. In the end he does gets some mortal wounds from the cultists, but he ignores these and sees his girlfriend give birth, only to die and go into a grave covered in a beehive, and El Topo's son, the girlfriend and the baby ride away. I will be honest, the story is rather complicated and anyone including may get confused and not understand, most of it is a collection of bizarre images, ideas and situations. This is called the cult film fan's cult film, I can certainly see that it won't be to everyone's taste, but it is certainly in many ways near essential viewings, if you are one for films with a lot of blood and weirdness, then this is for you, a good surreal spaghetti western. Worth watching!

The first A.J. flick i saw was "The Holy Mountain" it was at some random party thrown on some t.v. slightly to the middle of the room. People were mainly talking and not paying attention, but i was stunned. Despite the fact that the films are fictional, what these actor's and actress's do is totally amazing. I've never seen more haggard people doing so many depraved things in my life. Let me run a few words by that come to mind when thinking of this movie, western, Illuminati, vile acts, rape, religion, death, blood, death, people who are physically deformed, rage, the all seeing eye, gunfight showdown, bloodbath and the new world order. Watching this movie makes me want to stop eating meat, what I'm saying is it's powerful stuff that will make you think about lot's of things all at once, so strap yourself in for a true viewing experience. Ten stars.

Those are a few of the things you will see in this movie. This film is hard to wrap your head around at times. There are scenes where characters change roles and appearance between shots, that change rather quickly. This isn't the reason the film is hard to wrap your head around. A lot of it has to do with the religious imagery. The film is filled with it as well as several bible verses. It seems as though different points are being made at different points in the movie, and that those points point to other matters which don't exist in the film. Starting to get the point? The film takes a more typical western feel near the beginning with the black gunman (EL Topo). This segment of the movie is action film and has a lot of the hooks of Western Genre Films (as well as 70's art house hooks). Later on the film takes a very different turn and feels a lot less like a western. Our main character acts and looks completely differently and his motivations are almost opposite in every way. We only feel the story cutting back together as El Topo reunites with a character earlier in the movie.The film has a superb visual flair and is littered with many types of religious imagery and symbolism. Whether it all makes sense to you or only some of it does, the film is well worth the journey.