Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

LeonLouisRicci Writer and sometimes Movie Director Michael Crichton's Clinical, Sterile Style is one of His Strengths and one of His Weaknesses. When it Works, "Westworld" it can be Intricate and Impressive in a Genre (Sci-Fi) that is Frequently Neither.In this Film, based on the Crichton Novel but Directed by Mike Hodges, it is Technologically Stunning and Visually "Still Life" Calculatingly Smart and Sharp.Reminding of Stanley Kubrick's Still, Lingering, Symmetrical Approach, the Story was and is Topical and the Machines or (A.I.) Takeover and Dehumanization results in the Slowest of Burn Rendition of Scientific and Medical Hubris gone Bonkers.George Segal and the rest of the Cast, especially Joan Hackett, try and Inject some Humanity into the Project but the Framing of the Film is so Overpoweringly Oppressive and Overwhelming that People are Present only in the Abstract.The Movie is Beautiful, but Brain-Numbing Boring, especially in the First Half and requires of the Viewer to be in a Beta-State to Endure the Pacing. Artistically Accomplished and the Subject Matter is Thought-Provoking, but it uses that Crichton Curse of an Over-Emphasis on the Minutia of Medical and Scientific Hardware to the Detriment of the Drama.Overall, Off-Beat, Excruciatingly Slow, but Meticulously Detailed Visual Warning that a Reliance on Technology is as Terrifying as any "War on Terror". Its Shortfall is that a Heart-Beat is Barely Discernible in the Script and its Comatose Pacing.

mike48128 Said to be one of Michael Creighton's least-favorite novels. Much changed from the book, including the ending. Poor George Segal. He plays a man with a rare kind of epilepsy that causes him to become psychotic, violent, and an amnesiac. To my knowledge, there is no such type, and the American Epilepsy Foundation condemned this film! Richard Dyshart throws up before he performs the surgery; not a good sign. Much professional criticism in the film citing mind-control by computers and such science-fiction Mumbo-Jumbo. It appears to be highly edited for content and screen time before release. An almost bloodless brain operation. The wiring goes wrong and his brain tries to create more seizures, as one of the electrodes stimulates his brain's "pleasure center". His girlfriend helps him break out of the hospital. He is armed with a gun and a blonde wig. Brief nudity in the strip club. He goes on a killing rampage. After this point, the film is no longer fascinating or intriguing. It becomes a tedious paint-by-the-numbers ho-hum non-thriller. He violently murders both his girlfriend and a Catholic Priest. He finds his way to Dr. Ross' (Joan Hackett) apartment, and it appears for a moment that he is going to go after her "Psycho Style" in her shower. He never gets inside the bathroom. The door stops him. In my house, the door would have crumbled like balsa wood. She stabs him in the chest with a kitchen knife and he ends up in a freshly-dug grave in a Catholic Cemetery. The Swat Team shoots him. I would have had him short-circuit and jump out the apartment window, in the stark realization that the operation (and the movie) were both failures!

raypdaley182 Segal plays a man who has had an accident and suffered some sort of cranial injury (I'm sorry Micheal Crichton, It really isn't explained well enough in my opinion). He is then subjected to a pioneering new medical treatment previously only ever tried on monkeys.This is where the film falls down. Has Micheal never heard of all the testing, trials and licensing procedures that drugs and medical procedures have to go through. So basically the entire idea for the plot is scuppered right away before the movie even really gets a chance to start.The film pursues the idea anyway, and Segal has a micro implant into his brain to control impulses that cause him want to kill.Yep, of course it fails and the implant starts giving him the impulses. Segal escapes the hospital after his operation (how is he even able to do anything after major surgery on his brain?) he starts having attacks and kills his girlfriend and runs off on a frenetic killing frenzy. his implant is being monitored and the scientists are able to predict when he will strike but not where. (surely the nuclear implant would have been traceable?) finally after killing a priest Segal thinks about killing himself and finds himself in a cemetery (didn't understand how he got here either) and falls into an open grave but is carrying a pistol. he has a seemingly fatal fit but is near catatonic - not dead. the police kill him despite the fact he has dropped his gun (the marksman would have seen this through his telescopic sight and LEGALLY could not fire his weapon so he committed murder) and the end is very bad and totally impossible to understand.are they planning to try this procedure again with another prisoner? weird but strangely watchable like THX-1138.

ninfilms I been a fan of Mike Hodges film right from the first time I watched Get Carter. I have watched most of his films: some brilliant Pulp, Black Rainbow, Croupier, some misunderstood, Flash Gordon, some could of been better, Morons From Outer space, A Prayer For The Dying and some underestimated I'll Sleep When I'm Dead and The Terminal Man.The Terminal Man is one of coldest brilliant movies of 70's which I can understand why many people would not like this film. OK its not a chick flick or A Vin Diesel material, but hey wasn't going to be.It is well directed by Hodges and acted by George Segal and I would to see this classic getting a DVD released