* Bloke severely stuffs up and wrecks someone's life
* Is asked to do something that makes no sense to put things right again
* Tries every which way to make things right in his own strength
* Eventually does the weird thing he was asked to do in the first place, and things are put right again

Fantastic film. Watch it over and over. Forget about the swearing. Learn how humility can win over arrogance, weakness can overcome strength, and goodness be brought from the most dark of situations!

Touching.
Review date: 2004-05-03 Rating: 10 out of 10

What do you expect from a Terry Gilliam film? Something inventive, an entertaining but thought-provoking take on the human condition? A meaningful story shot with the imagination and cheerful dismissal to reality, which ironically brings the movie closer to home?

I saw 'Brazil' a few months ago, and didn't think cinema could get any better. I bought 'Fisher King' with the expectation that it would be good, but dominated by the huge personalities of Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges. I didn't expect anything close to what I'd seen in 'Brazil'. But, contrary to what I'd expected the big on-screen personalities work in perfect harmony to this wacky world Gilliam presented us with.

A perfect script, a perfect cast, a perfect director. Perfect.

An insight into our own depths.
Review date: 2003-12-28 Rating: 10 out of 10

Robin Williams excells in this initially strange film, playing alongside Jeff Bridges they extrude the best acting juices from one another to produce a warm and deeply satisfying epic.
To believe that Robin Williams can only play the fool is a grave misunderstanding of the mans talent and zest for life.
If you have problems in your life, take time out, chill, and feel the grass beneath you as you lay contemplating your place in this world and how breif our existance, so live it to the full, and smile.
Miss this and miss out !

Finally on DVD!
Review date: 2003-11-21 Rating: 10 out of 10

Terry Gilliam's films are always worth catching, and this is my favourite of them all. The story of redemption and triumph over tragedy makes this the most poignant of the fantastic stories that Gilliam has told in his unique cinematic way.

Like The Shawshank Redemption, this film is a treasure many never heard of upon it's release, or if they did, seem to have forgotten. Starring the almost demonic Jeff Bridges as Jack Lucas, a 'shock jock' who blames himself for inciting a listener to murder, the story catches up with him as his drunken self-loathing leads him to the brink of suicide. Enter Robin Williams as Parry, a seemingly unhinged tramp, whose decline was triggered by the death of his wife in the shootings Jack feels responsible for. The pair battle together for each other's sanity in a tale that encompasses Arthurian myth, knights on horseback in central park, and love blossoming in chinese restaurants.

While emotionally wrenching at times, this is still a beautiful, whimsical, and even very funny journey, with the price of entry justified by the real story of the Fisher King that Parry tells Jack in central park alone.

You'll laugh, cry, and swear off eating dumplings in public, but this is a small price to pay, as is the cost of the title. Even if Monty Python was never your thing, and Twelve Monkeys was just too sci-fi for your taste, still this film deserves a place in everyone's collection.

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