Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Very strange, still manages to be one of the most beautiful films that I have ever seen. Cinematography is unmatched. Composition makes me want to cry tears of joy. I would definitely recommend this to anyone. Story seems a bit incomprehensible at times but the epicness makes up for the holes in the story (at the end of the day the story doesn't matter that much). I watched Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain on the come down of an acid trip and I enjoyed that very much and I imagine that this movie would also pair wonderfully with said substances.

As someone not too interested in religious symbolism, I did not enjoy this film. It's sparse and minimalist and very little happens in 2 hours. There's not much offered to the viewer other than a very brief story that appears to be some kind of metaphor pertaining to religion. The meaning isn't obvious either, so you're just watching some weird, meaningless stuff unless you put thought into it and try to come up with your own explanation. It's not particularly visually beautiful or engaging in other ways.I can see how this could be an interesting film for people who are interested in Christianity and enjoy these kinds of exercises, although I suspect this is a film that receives a lot of spurious praise from people who like it just because it's so out there or because they think that's the cool thing to do. It's trendy in certain circles.

This movie (!?) reminded me of Monty Python, although it is not as nearly funny and clever. Apparently, in those days any number of shoots collected and somehow put together has been regarded as "movie". And got "cult" status instantly. This approach still has faithful followers nowadays (see - or don't - The Orphan Killer, paranormal Acticity, Blair Witch and such). And the less sense it makes, it is considered more "artistic". Like, acting is a shame, editing is something not worth bothering, and directing means (probably) explaining to the participants what they should do (or otherwise, if they do not feel like it) over a large amount of alcohol. Don't get me wrong: this movie (!?) has its moments and is a material worth remaking (by Terry Gilliam, for instance) but this... Jesus! Surreal? Introspective? Thoughtful? My ass! Plain stupid. Forget about it. It's that simple.

This Spanish language film I spotted because it was featured in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, I wasn't sure what I would make of it before I watched, but I am glad I did. Basically El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky, also writing and directing) is the cowboy riding his horse with his naked six year old son riding with him, and they are burying childhood photos and objects in the desert sand to make the boy a man. Journeying back they come across a massacre of blood and bodies, all killed by bandits, and deciding he is something of a God he decides he should get revenge for these people, including killing the fat bald Colonel. After leaving his son in the care of some monks, El Topo rides off with Mara (Mara Lorenzio) whom the Colonel kept as a slave, and she encourages him to kill four guns-men to be the greatest in the land, but he ends up feeling guilty afterwards. After being shot by another woman and Mara abandoning him he is dragged away by some dwarfs and mutants, and years later he is in a cave full of deformed outcasts who have made him their God. They only have one way out of the cave, and El Topo decides to help them escape, and he also forms a lover relationship with a dwarf girl, and then he wants money for dynamite. El Topo's grown up son finds him and threatens to kill him for abandoning him, but after he allows the outcasts to get out, and he succeeds in creating an exit that all the people flood out of. In the end he does gets some mortal wounds from the cultists, but he ignores these and sees his girlfriend give birth, only to die and go into a grave covered in a beehive, and El Topo's son, the girlfriend and the baby ride away. I will be honest, the story is rather complicated and anyone including may get confused and not understand, most of it is a collection of bizarre images, ideas and situations. This is called the cult film fan's cult film, I can certainly see that it won't be to everyone's taste, but it is certainly in many ways near essential viewings, if you are one for films with a lot of blood and weirdness, then this is for you, a good surreal spaghetti western. Worth watching!