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Badlands Reviews

1973

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Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek are Kit and Holly in this incredible debut feature film from elusive writer/director Terrence Malick. South Dakota, 1959. Kit and Holly are adrift in a double fantasy of crime and punishment, a headlong flight from nowhere, to nowhere. They're playing make-believe but the bullets are real. And the .. Read more

Starring	Martin Sheen, Ramon Bieri, Warren Oates, Sissy Spacek
Director	Terrence Malick
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller

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- One of the most impressive directorial debuts ever. On the surface, it's merely another rural-gangster movie in the... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:16
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  - 3
  Shooting stars
  
  Watching this film, you wonder what the protagonists would make of it all if they could watch themselves through our eyes. Holly and Kit are, after all, ... read more »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Mint400
  - 7 reviews
  - London
  - 26 Jul 2004 at 22:00
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- - 2
  - 0
  Classic Movie
  
  Always strange re-visiting a film you thought was great after not seeing it for a long time. It is still a great film and disturbing. It shows up Natural Born ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 11 Oct 2011 at 09:37
- - 0
  - 0
  Legend of the fallen
  
  As a first feature this was great success for Terrence Malick. It remains an impressive story of disaffected youth, humorous in parts and if the main characters... read more »
  
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- 1035476
- - Zamy
  - 546 reviews
  - London
  - 31 Aug 2011 at 14:29
- - 1
  - 0
  Quaintly Savage
  
  Really beautifully shot film. Occasionally brutal but often very subtle. Just a good movie experience. I came to it with no expectations and no idea what it was... read more »
  
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- 995267
- - 5ft7offootballheaven
  - 183 reviews
  - London
  - 21 May 2011 at 08:32
- - 0
  - 2
  Trigger Happy
  
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  Not the 1st film I have seen were older guy leads young girl astray and goes on mass killing spree however the violence seemed tame by todays 18 cert standards... read more »
  
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- 987817
- - DirtyMartini
  - 8 reviews
  - North West
  - 01 May 2011 at 10:26
- - 1
  - 0
  nobody makes em like Malick
  
  In the wromg hands any one of Malicks films could be a boring self-indulgent waste of celluloid but if you fall into the pace of them they are part genre films ... read more »
  
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- 927190
- - itstinks
  - 550 reviews
  - North of Reading
  - 28 Sep 2010 at 10:00
- - 0
  - 0
  Absolute Classic
  
  I first saw this decades ago in some arthouse theatre somewhere. I remembered loving then when I was a similar age to the main characters. I wondered how it ... read more »
  
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- 897011
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Simon
  - Monyash
  - 08 Jun 2010 at 09:59
- - 0
  - 4
  reviewed this once
  
  and again it has disappeared altoghether.
  
  seems to happen all the time.
  
  enjoyed watching martin sheen in an early role film was okay
  
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- - skinnylong
  - 37 reviews
  - hull
  - 05 Jun 2010 at 23:55
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  - 0
  badlands is not so bad
  
  a classic film. looks a little dated now, as does the style of acting, but that said it is a pretty good damn film with good performances of the time.
  
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- - gingerspike
  - 261 reviews
  - Grimsby
  - 27 Feb 2010 at 14:38
- - 0
  - 0
  Badlands
  
  Disturbing, boring, fascinating, rubbish... but addictive. Once you start to watch this film you have to stick it out till the end, despite knowing that iots ... read more »
  
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- 818751
- - evripley
  - 40 reviews
  - Washington
  - 07 Oct 2009 at 22:14
- - 0
  - 0
  Just great
  
  Misfits find each other, buddie-movie-love-story that inspired Tarantino/Tony Scott's 'True Romance' and not forgetting the fantastic haunting ... read more »
  
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- - Prova
  - 3 reviews
  - Cranleigh
  - 08 May 2009 at 22:59
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- - 23
  - 3
  Shooting stars
  
  Watching this film, you wonder what the protagonists would make of it all if they could watch themselves through our eyes. Holly and Kit are, after all, ... read more »
  
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- 306934
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Mint400
  - 7 reviews
  - London
  - 26 Jul 2004 at 22:00
- - 16
  - 1
  Starkweather and Fugate
  
  The Time Out review above fails to mention that this film is not wholly fiction. This is the telling of REAL events that happened in 1958 in Nebraska and ... read more »
  
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- 337168
- - Pour1Malt
  - 11 reviews
  - Dumfries
  - 08 Jun 2005 at 12:30
- - 10
  - 0
  Original and impressive
  
  A clever and poignant portrayal of a young girl who runs off with a serial killer. Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek play the roles to perfection. The dialogue is ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Llanbedr Pont Steffan, Cymru
  - 08 Feb 2004 at 14:13
- - 6
  - 1
  Badlands
  
  Kit Carruthers (Martin Sheen) and Holly Sargis (Sissy Spacek) are, to misquote the brilliant tagline of Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde; Young, in love and ... read more »
  
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- - SAI81
  - 360 reviews
  - Tonbridge
  - 17 Nov 2005 at 20:04
- - 4
  - 0
  Why? Why not ...
  
  Some of the best films don't attempt to moralise or explain, they just let events speak for themselves. This modern fairy tale does just that and does it ... read more »
  
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- 20104
- - shoddy
  - 78 reviews
  - Jersey
  - 30 Sep 2004 at 13:46
- - 4
  - 3
  Not for us
  
  Found this film slow and boring. Martin Sheen had potential but failed to bring the character alive. Not a lot more to say really, it's either a love it or ... read more »
  
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- 338255
- - brien123
  - somerset
  - 18 Jun 2005 at 09:00
- - 2
  - 0
  Less distressing than the injured mouse the cat dragged in...
  
  This is the study of the personality disordered . Sheen is a psychopath and his younger female associate (they don't do friends) Ms. antisocial, with all ... read more »
  
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- - MatronRules
  - 19 reviews
  - England
  - 10 Oct 2008 at 23:21
- - 2
  - 0
  Classic Movie
  
  Always strange re-visiting a film you thought was great after not seeing it for a long time. It is still a great film and disturbing. It shows up Natural Born ... read more »
  
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- 1050145
- - a customer
  - 11 Oct 2011 at 09:37
- - 2
  - 1
  Very good, influential road movie
  
  Badlands is clearly influenced by Bonnie and Clyde, a similar story of a couple in love and on the run, made six years previously. Badlands has received wide ... read more »
  
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- 68404
- - Adam H. Gallimore
  - the middle of Dorset
  - 31 Jan 2005 at 15:27
- - 1
  - 0
  OK, I am a Terence ...
  
  OK, I am a Terence Malik fan, so I was bound to like this one. It has the same rhythm as Days of Heaven with a slow drift towards a predictable end, but then ... read more »
  
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- 25445
- - FDestin#1
  - LONDON
  - 06 Oct 2003 at 10:14

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  Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek are Kit and Holly in this incredible debut feature film from elusive writer/director Terrence Malick. South Dakota, 1959. Kit and Holly are adrift in a double fantasy of crime and punishment, a headlong flight from nowhere, to nowhere. They're playing make-believe but ...