US Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, somehow observations like the state of a run-down country church, meeting the ridiculous frauds on the streets and memories inspire him to take up, after initially fierce refusal, the part of a traveling preacher when a cab driver insists he looks like one in his new hat. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus, his first disciple being an 18-year old simpleton with a 'prophetic gift'... (Full plot summary below)
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US Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, somehow observations like the state of a run-down country church, meeting the ridiculous frauds on the streets and memories inspire him to take up, after initially fierce refusal, the part of a traveling preacher when a cab driver insists he looks like one in his new hat. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus, his first disciple being an 18-year old simpleton with a 'prophetic gift'...
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| Filmcritic.comChris Cabinperhaps the most ballistic of Huston's late-period films |
| VarietyVariety StaffJohn Huston, with uncluttered direction and expert handling of actors, has fashioned a disturbing tale of the fringe side of overzealous religious preachers in the deep South. |
| Time OutChris AutyThis adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's novel is John Huston's best film for many years. |
| Film ThreatMatthew SorrentoHuston stays true to the novel's events but draws from the story all the black comedy he can find. We are in strange territory. |
| Radio TimesTony SlomanUltimately the movie's taste becomes highly questionable. |
| TIME MagazineFrank RichThose moviegoers who have a taste for Wise Blood are not going to cavil about flaws. It is enough to ride the wild imaginative waves of this singular artistic adventure |
| Desist FilmTara JudahWise Blood is an unsettling account of post-war machismo and mental illness wrapped up in small town values and big ideas. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendrickstrange, sub-Coen Brothers caricature that, especially when underscored with Alex North's deliberately hammy hillbilly music, never amounts to much more than a condescending tragicomic satire of spiritual emptiness |
| User ReviewDan KYou have to be kidding me? John Huston is the fucking king. Harry Dean Stanton is the king. This movie is 100% king all around. |
| User ReviewNelson MJohn Huston's adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's novel is an incredibly good one at that. With the right amount of southern flair, this film touches the right chords to tell a darkly comic tale. It pulls no punches and digs right into various religious issues and the nature of religion itself. The scenarios range from incredibly dark to quite hilarious and is worth watching not only for it's commentary, in O'Connor's own Catholic way, and the comedy that comes along with it. Wise Blood is an unrecognized classic much like Huston's Night of the Iguana and deserves much more recognition that it is given. |
