The Fisher King
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Movie Reviews of The Fisher King
Movie Review: This is in plain English...a....masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
The Fisher King is a movie that I greatly enjoyed rewatching a couple of nights ago. The movie is in my opinion a masterpiece but I'm sure that a lot of people disslike it. It's a very deep movie, and you have to open your mind to it. You have to think about the themes in the movie and think about each character and their personalities in order to enjoy it to the fullest.
Also, if someone tells you that it's a comedy.. Beware!!!! It's not... It's a drama with comedic moments. I guess you could call it a tragicomedy. The movie has some of the best acting that I have ever see.
Robin William's performance is in my opinion probably the best performance EVER in a movie. By an actor or actress. Period.
He will make you laugh, cry and fell terrible pity for him. How he didn't win an academy award or oscar for this is ridiculous.
Jeff Bridges is also amazing and also captivates you. These two leading actors did a fantastic job. And all of the other actors and actresses were also great.
The movie is about Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges), who's THE MAN. He's a rich radio station guy who's a snob, arrogant, and quite frankly, a character that you don't like. But when he causes an awful tragedy, he is let go and is at the bottom of his ship.
3 years later, he's an alcoholic, and doesn't even work.
He's suicidal and is about to kill himself when some punks grab him and are about to kill him when... Parry (Robin Williams) arrives and saves him. And then Jack finds out about Parry. He's a homeless guy who thinks he's a knight on a quest to find the holy grail. Jack thinks that he's insane. And then he finds out the awful tragedy that happened to Parry. And that tragedy occured becuase of Jack 3 years ago when he was let go.
Jack feels awful and befriends Parry and tries to help him.
The movie is so beautiful because it shows how one homeless man changes a once rich man. Parry transforms Jack into a kind and loving man, whereas at the start, he was a mean, arrogant, snob. The movie is quite frankly absolutely amazing.
The acting and the actual movie are perfect and this deserves to be owned by everyone. The story of the Fisher King in the movie is probably the most interesting and captivating.
Sit back and enjoy this original masterpiece.
Movie Review: One of the best Arthurian movies going
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a passionate love for the Arthurian legends. To paraphrase Robertson Davies, however, these tales have a poor history of being adapted to stage or screen. "Camelot", "Excalibur", "First Knight", "Prince Valiant" -- if you really love the tales, you know just how short these films fall.Then there is The Fisher King.
No, you won't find King Arthur here. You won't find Camelot or Guenivere or the Questing Beast. What you WILL find is the essence of the Grail story. Parry (Robin Williams) is Percival the Fool as well as The Fisher King himself; Jack (Jeff Bridges) is a fallen king-of-radio. Both are wounded and in a related manner. Neither faces his problems head on. Each needs another to pave the way to forgiveness, acceptance, and redemption. The ultimate physical object that leads to this may be a swimming trophy, but it is also the Holy Grail itself. Why? Because it truly is, if you only believe.
Along the way you meet the not-so-in-distress damsels (Mercedes Ruehl won an Oscar for best supporting actress; Amanda Plummer, who deserved one as well), the company of knights-errant (the homeless of New York City), an evil Red Knight, two even more evil local toughs, and the false-prophets from the land of television. Each of these is a person, or a type, from our own world. They also happen to fit the tales of the Holy Grail rather well. Forced comparisons? I leave that to the individual viewer to decide, but I found the characterizations marvelous. This is not a film about Real Life, but it is a film about something truer, something closer to the soul.
This is a film that deserves multiple veiwings. If nothing else you are going to want to see the scene in Grand Central Station more than once (if you know the movie, you know what I'm talking about; if not, you are in for a beautiful treat). This is a film that teeters between rampant silliness and powerful truths. Somehow it never feels schmaltzy, forced, or preachy.
Watch this film.
Let the little man dance!
Movie Review: 4.5 Stars
Summary: 5 Stars
The only reason this movie doesn't get five stars is because of the occasional over-acting of Robin Williams. Williams, who so often gets out of control and overshadows the other actors, does exercise enough restraint in this film to make his character sufficiently rounded and believable as an ex-professor tormented by the tragedy that took his wife's life.
Jeff Bridges portrays the darkness in his character, Jack, magnificently. Jack, a radio "shock jock" sets into motion a tragic event that destroys his career and sends him hurtling toward self-destruction. "Do you ever get the feeling," he asks, "you're being punished for your sins?"
In this sense, THE FISHER KING is like the dark underbelly of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Jack doesn't discover he's done good in the world, but realizes his own capacity for evil. He wants to atone, but he wants to do it the easy way. As he tearfully relates to his energetic and devoted lover (Mercedes Reuhl), "I wish I could just pay my ticket and go home." And he does try various means of atonement until at last he realizes he must give his all in order to find grace. Bridges is one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood. His acting in both STAR MAN and THE FISHER KING is amazing; he brings out just the right balance of humor and tragedy in his characters.
I've seen THE FISHER KING many times. Each time I reflect on how much our actions matter. In a now famous speech, Bobby Kennedy once spoke of sending out a tiny "ripple of hope," of how that ripple would spread and grow. THE FISHER KING warns us that negative energy acts the same way, spreading, growing.
And, the movie warns us, what goes around comes around. I can't express the theme of the movie any more simply than that.
Movie Review: Fantastic performance.
Summary: 5 Stars
What if I told you you were going to watch a movie in which Robin Williams is all kinds of naked and you were going to like it? The movie I mean. Not the nudity. Well, maybe the nudity if that is your thing. Anyway, I digress.
I really have not seen a movie that I enjoyed on this level in awhile. The performances of both Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams were so fun to watch. It was like they were dancing. I began to think about just how underappreciated I think Jeff Bridges is by most people. I think he does a great job, especially in The Fisher King. I do not feel as though I need to justify Robin Williams' career to any of you...
It was a truly unique film that I enjoyed very much.
Understand that in my euphoric state of review for this movie I am not saying it was otherworldly. It was not the best movie I have ever seen. I do not mean to rave about it. It was simply very good.
Have you ever had a movie that just tapped something loose inside you and gave you that "hmmm, this is a really good movie" feeling?
One prime example of why I liked the movie was when Parry sees Lydia come walking through the crowd and all of a sudden all of the hustling and bustling commuters are waltzing around the room. The only two people not caught in dance are Parry and Lydia. Once she is out of his sight, the dancing was no more. It was this little detail set among others of the sort that show that maybe there was a little extra effort put into direction of The Fisher King. I have to say it was appreciated.
Movie Review: "I love New York in June!"
Summary: 5 Stars
Former Monty Python regular Terry Gilliam has directed 13 movies, including the mythical "Baron Munchausen" in 1988, and 2 obvious classics, "Brazil", and "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". The year 2003 will bring us his "Good Omens". But in 1991, he gave us the mystical, magical gem "The Fisher King", a tremendous saga about the triumph of the human spirit. "The Fisher King" stars Jeff Bridges as another wounded, lost victim of the psychosis we call the modern world. He's a former talk radio star who destroys his life and many others' with a mean-spirited, thoughtless on-the-air remark. Fractured with guilt, he meets a demented homeless man(Robin Williams), and becomes enlisted in the unlikely quest for the Holy Grail. Robin Williams performance as Parry, the lost and wounded street person, is the genesis for his future demonic destitute crystalized 11 years later in "Death to Smoochy". Academy Award winning Mercedes Ruehl co-stars. This widescreen DVD(with trailer) is yet another terrific transfer from Columbia Tristar. And Sony gives it the anamorphic treatment. "The Fisher King" is a complete film; funny, compelling, innocent, and irrational. And like an old Howard Hawks epic, it's a street-level expose about the real relationship between two men. Love, Sanity, Redemption, and Ethel Merman. "The Fisher King" is a bountiful fantasy brimming with wonder and escapism....and isn't that what cinema is really all about?