CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Ed-Shullivan You know how some director's want to direct another screen classic like A Clockwork Orange and place their stamp of (dis)approval on what they consider to be their finest directorial picture? Well let me tell you that this director/writer, Michelangelo Antonioni, is nothing like the famed Italian artist/painter/sculptor (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) Michelangelo. Zabriskie Point stars two young actors named Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin who both are your typical 1960-1970's hippies, who believe in free love and "Damn to the Man". Daria Halprin plays Daria and Mark Frechette plays Mark. "Duh" I guess maybe they just could not pretend to act with someone else's name, but I swear their acting was putrid anyway. The screenplay and directing by Michelangelo Antonioni did not help the two actors who were continually interrupted with their love story by scenes that were supposed to "grasp our attention" but in my humble opinion I just shook my head and said to myself "WTF were you thinking?" I mean I understand that the early 1970's were a revolutionary time in cinematic experiences enhanced by split screens, long pauses and freeze frames, lustful film colors, vast expanses, shock value and some fantastic music scores. Just don't expect any of these visions from Zabriskie Point. I found Michelangelo Antonioni's attempt to deliver a once in a lifetime cinematic experience of his interpretation of how high flying United States business architects would result in catastrophic ruins of the Los Angeles desert to be absolutely ridiculous. The name Michelangelo will remain synonymous with the famed 16th century artist/sculptor and not to this hair brained of an idea by screen writer/director Michelangelo Antonioni who failed to deliver anything more than a piece of crap as his gift to the film historians art world.I give the film a poor 4 out 10 rating

dgz78 Being a teenager back when this film came out, I guess I would have a different opinion if I had watched back then. Unfortunately, it stayed on my 'I've got to see this movie some day' list until I was long past part of the intended audience.Today it feels like it's a joke about American society. The student revolutionaries could spend all their time arguing about whether their school is bad or if it is bad and mean. The scary thing is a lot of those students now can only find jobs in those schools or some other government entity where productivity is unimportant.But as much as I have enjoyed watching Blow-Up over the years, it at least had a point to the story. I've had a lot of balloons that have had better points. Antonioni must think he was the first to discover there is a generation gap and the young are just free and easy with life and love. The photography and the music are the best things about ZP - it sure isn't the acting. Antonioni intentionally hired amateurs for the leads and it shows. Even the stereotypes he hired had trouble playing the stereotypes they actually were. Evidently from their minuscule list of credits no one else saw any acting ability in them either.I could have used more Pink Floyd and Grateful Dead and all other music. There could have been an extended version of Dark Star over all the shots of Daria driving in the desert and it would have made the tedious parts bearable.If you have a couple hours with nothing absolutely nothing to do take the time to watch what Antonioni saw happening in America at the end of the '60s. But know you have been warned.

wvisser-leusden For understanding Antionioni's Zabriskie Point', you need insight in the ways of the alternative-thinking American youngsters from the late 19-Sixties. In connection with student-riots at Berkely, their protests were aimed against the behavior of their parent's generation.Only on this condition you'll be able to appreciate 'Zabriskie Point' to the full. Admiring the excellent capturing of its spirit, supported by its magnificent picturing -- another famous Antonioni- trademark. From these points of view, 'Zabriskie Point' nowadays almost shows as a historical documentary.For those who were not around at the time, I guess 'Zabriskie Point' turns out somewhat disappointing. This film surely bears all Antonioni high-quality marks, yes, but its plot makes little sense. Might even be considered as dull. Its only moments of good tense are provided in the scene where the boy meets the girl. Involving his low-flying airplane over the car driven by her.

JasparLamarCrabb Michelangelo Antonioni's American film has become a classic study of alienated youth despite the fact that it's not really a very good movie. It's muddled, poorly acted and awkwardly paced. It's challenging to be sure but there are also a lot of in-your-face imagery (endless signs of the consumerism the US embraces, police shooting AT rioting students) that help to form Antonioni's decidedly anti-American slant. Casting non-actors in the leads doesn't help. Combined, Daria Halprin & Mark Frechette have the charisma of a rock. Following two story lines (one involving Frechette and student revolutionaries, the other involving Haplprin and her boss/lover Rod Taylor) that lead to a highly explosive ending, the film is a beautifully photographed bore. It's dull rather than compelling. The rock songs that pepper the film (by the likes of Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones and The Grateful Dead) add little. The screenplay was worked by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra along with Fred Gardner, Sam Shepard and Clare Peploe, but there's really very little here. As Frechette says early on in the film, "I'm willing to die...but not from boredom." If you feel that way, stay away from this one.