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Information
- Year
- 1975
- Runtime
- 112 min.
- Director
- Michael Anderson
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
- Rating *
- 5.5
- Votes *
- 1,553
- Checks
- 95
- Favs
- 3
- Dislikes
- 6
- Favs/checks
- 3.2% (1:32)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:2
Top comments
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Siskoid
In the 70s, I guess they didn't have any other take on superheroes but outright camp, because Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze certainly is that. The main bad guy is somewhere between a Bond villain and Thurston Howell III, Doc and his crew (complete with useful piglet) pull tricks out of their metaphorical utility belts like Batman '66, and can apparently hear the sound effects indicating Doc is thinking. But I could forgive all that if it weren't for the silly circus and patriotic music that takes the stuffing out of the action scenes. It always feels like the movie is telling me not to take anything seriously even when I want to. It doesn't help that there are so many characters to get a handle on, and that Savage himself is rather characterless. That said, if you give yourself over to it, as you might, say, Buckaroo Banzai - another world that seems at once lived-in and opaque - the amusing madness may yet charm you. 6 years 4 months ago