Brazil (1985) Reviews & Ratings

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Brazil reviews

Brazil holds a 7.7/10 average from 3,836 TMDB ratings.

One of my all time favourite sci fi movies. Set the bench mark for modern sci fi, should be considered a great like Blade Runner. Great acting, story, soundtrack! 5/5
— chadrico (10/10)

**A film that was enough for more than one review: dream, nightmare, utopia and reality.** It was in 1939 that composer and singer-songwriter Ary Barroso released the iconic song “Aquarela do Brasil”. This samba became an icon of Brazilian music and was sung and disseminated by such noble voices as Francisco Alves, João Gilberto, Tom Jobim, Caetano Veloso, Tim Maia, Gal Costa, Erasmo Carlos, Elis Regina and, in Engl…
— Filipe Manuel Neto (4/10)

**Score: 20/10 A Perfect, Unassailable Masterpiece of Dystopian Imagination** Some films are not merely watched; they are *inhabited*. Terry Gilliam's *Brazil* is such a film. It is a towering, terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking vision of a world that feels more prescient with each passing year. The Director's Cut the *only* version that should ever be watched is a flawless work of art, an achievement so compl…
— misubisu (10/10)

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

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