Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) tells the story of a group of people in search of El Dorado in the mid-1500s. The majority of the film deals with the people on a raft sailing down a river in the Amazon rain forest. Over the course of the film, Indians kill off the people on the raft. The plot is intentionally minimalistic. Overall, I found this film to be quite boring.

The main character, Aguirre, is played by Klaus Kinski. While he was fairly decent portraying a guy going deeper and deeper into madness, I didn't find his performance overly-great. The other actors were fairly uninteresting.

Overall, I didn't care for this at all. The film was fairly popular upon its release and remains a well-respected film. In 2002 Roger Ebert, along with a lesser-known critic, included this film in his list of 10 films for the Sight and Sound poll of the greatest films of all-time. After viewing this film, I would not even consider placing it in such a list.

64/100
D

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