I love Terry Gilliam. Brazil is one of my favorite movies. The Fisher King showed me what movies can be when audiences are asked to engage more imaginatively. But this movie seems like a big mess. What Gilliam does so brilliantly is pull back the curtain on the mythological context that exists just behind our smug, modern cynicism. When it works itโs because he keeps us grounded in the characters real lives. When we lose that reality, the mythic elements become random, costumed shtick and visual excess. Sadly, thatโs all I could get from this film. Maybe I completely missed the boat. Iโd rather this was the case. I hate to say it but I get why it took 25 years to make it. It might take another 25 years to sort through the nonsense, noise and chaos to figure it out. Whoโs got the time?