Review of The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) by Christoph S — 08 Aug 2007

The only good thing about this movie is its lead actor David Bowie who perfectly fits the role of this strange 'person/alien' who fell to Earth. But neither Bowie can deliver this movie. (and belonging acting it's not really a good performance either - his face expression remains more or less the same in the whole movie, which is probably intended to help giving his character that weird appearance but finally fails also IMHO).

A plot (plot???) is not existing in the movie, which makes it very hard to like it I think. There will be people who enjoy this movie for being different and cult - but I'm pretty sure they did not really like it either (or at least weren't entertained by it) - because they didn't understand it, they just think that they've seen a piece of art with many messages and so on... (don't take that personal - perhaps I'm the fool who didn't get the message and all the sybolism that was in this movie).

I can really not recommend this movie, but you could like it if you are a fan of the movies by David Lynch and the later films by Federico Fellini...