Catch-22
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Movie Reviews of Catch-22
Movie Review: A needed reminder
Summary: 4 Stars
At first I didn't care for this movie at all. The acting seemed so overdone that the movie came off as just another cartoonish cliché of intellectually flatulent radical pretention. But for some reason, after thinking more about the movie, I suddenly envisioned Barak Obama playing the part of Milo; instantly the movie began to make perfect sense. Joe Biden then took over Col. Cathcart's role, with Rahm Emanuel playing Korn's part; and Bill Clinton stood in for Gen. Dreedle (the current-day analogies could be multiplied.) This movie reminds us that absurdity and insanity--while inevitably in the eye of each beholder--remain unavoidably intertwined with our broken and fallen world, a world which the Apostle Paul describes as groaning in bondage to futility, and longing for redemption.Movie Review: Great book to good movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Overall, the book carried over nicely to film. There is obviously no way the movie could have the same scope and depth of the book, but it did a good job with what it had. I thought that Alan Arkin was perfect. He IS Yossarian. I was happy to see that a lot of important scenes from the book made the film. However, these scenes weren't always done what I felt was correctly, and this is why I gave it 4 stars. Call me spoiled since I read the book first. This is a great movie that ranks right up with MASH as the important anti-Vietnam War films. I thought this was a very good movie, and if I had seen the movie without reading the book I probably would have given it 5 stars.Movie Review: A classic Viet Nam era movie
Summary: 4 Stars
One very strange war movie that glances from comic opera to
Dostoyevsky tragedy to black insanity in a surreal tapestry
of video art.
The idea that if you are sane enough to want out of flying missions
then you aren't really insane as a Catch 22 is very like much of real life war even today. War is maybe humanity's worst
suspension of reason and this novel and the movie made from it is a literary/ cultural condemnation of that. It may be the hope that the human race may one day be sane enough to
forsake war altogether?
Movie Review: Only if you read the book
Summary: 4 Stars
Anyone attempting to put "Catch-22" on screen should have realized what a tremendous problem it would present. Any success of such an enterprise could be a priori partial - and this film is no exception. Despite very good acting, and generally veritable rendition of the spirit of the novel, the film cannot be considered as a successful stand-alone work of art - it should be seen only by those who read the book, otherwise, a lot of the detail is lost on the viewer, and the action/plot gives somewhat of a "disconnected" impression.Movie Review: I don't want to fly anymore, I want to go home
Summary: 4 Stars
Catch-22 DVD
Catch-22 is based on Joseph Heller's novel about an American air base in the Mediterranean during World War II. Again, if you are a reader IMHO the book Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (Barron's Book Notes) is better, the movie quicker, Starring Alan Arkin and Martin Balsam.
Recommended for fans of Alan Arkin and Martin Balsam.
Gunner February, 2008