TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

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

writers_reign Not for the first time and almost certainly not the last I find that I have apparently been watching a different film to the majority of people who have posted comments here, all seemingly fully paid-up members of the Lindsay Anderson For President club. It's strange - to me at least - how the BFI seemingly is unable to function without a deity to worship and with Ken Loach on his last legs they'll be burning the midnight oil on Southbank and laying in a supply of white smoke. Anderson of course preceded Loach and that poseur who came up with a trilogy about Liverpool and then had the temerity to think he was up to rewriting Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea. So be it. This effort can't seem to decide if it's a poor man's I'm All Right, Jack or an up-market Hammer horror either way it's well worth missing.

Leofwine_draca As a black comedy taking major swipes at the state of Britain's National Health Service, BRITANNIA HOSPITAL is a one of a kind film. It's the closing part of a trilogy of sorts by director Lindsay Anderson, following on from IF... and O LUCKY MAN!, although it's nothing like those films, but it does feature Malcolm McDowell in a supporting role.The film is difficult to define and difficult to describe as well. It involves the bizarre antics set in and around a hospital where a mad doctor is performing all kinds of bizarre experiments. Meanwhile a bunch of left-wing loony protesters are outside and desperate to get in. The film chronicles the actions of an oddball bunch of characters as they intermingle and attempt to make sense of their situation.As a black comedy, this is odd stuff indeed; there aren't really any laugh-out-loud moments here, just plenty of quirkiness. The political satire is occasionally brilliant. There's one incredible, stand-out gore sequence which must have inspired RE-ANIMATOR, it's that extreme, and you wouldn't expect it in a British comedy like this. Meanwhile, an all-star British cast - including the likes of Graham Crowden, Leonard Rossiter, Robin Askwith, and Fulton Mackay - help breathe life into the thing and make it entertaining. BRITANNIA HOSPITAL is definitely worth a look for fans of cult cinema.

Aidan_Mclaren I mean really what was the point of this film in Lindsay Anderson's eyes? Britannia Hospital stands for Britain and the problems in it, including bowing down to corrupt dictators, allowing monstrous experiments, easily-swayed union-leaders, cradling the rich and just general madness.The film does not do as well as the last two as it seems rushed, you don't go as deep as you would like and the black humour and satire is unsubtle, obvious and boring quite frankly.Mick Travis is not given enough time as he should have been other than being turned into a Frankenstein creation and dying. I often thought why did he put him in? Probably to continue the sequels.The good points of the film include the acting and the cinematography, by far the best scenes were the ones including Graham Crowdan as the mad doctor.The ending may have prevented this being a bad movie in general, as it eloquently notes by a brain that when man tries to be God, the result can be indescribable. There is no solution to this problem we have as the brain says and thus sums up the whole trilogy's message and Lindsay Anderson's view on the human race.But other than that, he took a huge nose dive compared to his other two masterpieces and he really didn't need to feel that he had to make a sequel to "O Lucky Man!" as it said pretty much everything this did and better.

sol- After satirising Britain's education system in 'If....' and the British justice system in 'O Lucky Man!', Lindsay Anderson takes a look at the health care system in this final part of his trilogy with Malcolm McDowell. It is not as effectively dramatic as 'If....', nor is it as delightfully whimsical as 'O Lucky Man!', but even if slightly inferior, this is a good film in itself, full of fascinating ideas and colourful characters. It is quite interesting to watch throughout, although a bit excessively disgusting and over-the-top at times, and in general it is a fairly solid conclusion to perhaps the oddest trilogy that has ever been filmed.