The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

I thoroughly enjoyed Chris Smith's documentary American Movie, but this is Terry Gilliam (Brazil, 12 Monkeys, The Fisher King) trying to make a $30+ million movie, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, starring Brad Pitt, Vanessa Paradis, and Jean Rochefort. You know the law: What can go wrong, will go wrong. This is that story.Orson Welles worked thirty years to bring Quixote to the screen, and failed. Gilliam worked 10 and had to start with about $8 million less than planned. This affected the ability to pay actors, and they agreed to work for less than usual. That meant they had to fit the filming in their schedules. Getting them to Spain for rehearsal was to be a real challenge. A week before production was to begin, they still did not have Depp or Paradis on set.Finally, it is production time and the rains come. Nothing seemed to go right. After five days of production. you could see the frustration in everyone's faces. Then Rochefort leaves to see his doctor and they do not know what will happen next.In the end, the plug was pulled because it could not go on without Rochefort, who was seriously ill.A fascinating tale of the travails of film-making.

I love Gilliam films. I love Depp. I love Don Quixote. All this adds up to great frustration in seeing their Quixote film crash and burn. Will we ever see it on screen? Who knows. Maybe someday. But this documentary gives a great glimpse into what might have been, and makes a great counter-story to the in-depth Episode I and X-Men DVD making-of documentaries that showed how a successful film comes together. This one shows the darker side of film-making and what can happen when all goes awry. Very interesting, if completely frustrating to be teased with such a perfect group on a project that may never be completed.

A brilliant documentary about what indeed can go wrong on a film and how fortunate we are too see many great films come to life. Making a film is like re-creating life, and this film show us how difficult it can indeed be. If ever, it's here where Murphy's law applies deeply.After reading the comments here I have little to add - All of them say what I want to say. I would have liked to see this film come out though! Since I am a great fan of Terry and all his films.I think there should be made a documentary on Gilliam, it's definitely something that I would like to see. His imagination and his self-destructiveness are what make him an excellent filmmaker.

... That man is, of course, Terry Gilliam; and although all the painstaking effort we are shown reminds us that film-making is a collaborative process, it is difficult not to have the most sympathy and admiration for a director who has cherished the realisation of this project for reportedly over a decade. At the present time of writing, the spectre of the film still hangs around Gilliam's neck like the apocryphal albatross.Not only is this superb documentary successfully intimate to make its watchers want the tremendous promise that we see to be fulfilled; it also chronicles the setbacks so grimly, that to overcome them could only be heralded as a monumental triumph. In an era when interminable franchises continue to hook the drones into theatres, Quixote must come to fruition if only to show that passion and ambition will ultimately make more history than any amount of calculated profit-maximisation.I myself am eager to see this undertaking finally meet success in the future... I wish the best of luck to all parties involved.