Masked And Anonymous (2003)
Average Rating: 4/10
Reviews Counted: 78
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 59
Unintelligible and self-indulgent Bob Dylan vehicle.
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 27
Unintelligible and self-indulgent Bob Dylan vehicle.
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Movie Info
Enigmatic rock legend Bob Dylan stars as an enigmatic rock legend (talk about a casting coup!) in this purposefully eccentric satiric comedy. Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) is an unscrupulous concert promoter who has figured out a way to cash in on the feelings of doubt and uncertainty that plague his nation, which is being torn apart by civil war and political revolution. Sweetheart has decided he will stage a massive benefit concert, though the unnamed charity would appear to be his checking
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Penelope Cruz
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John Goodman
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Jessica Lange
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Luke Wilson
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Angela Bassett
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Jon Sklaroff
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Dan Frischman
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All Critics (81) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (59) | DVD (12)
A strong contender for the worst movie of the century.
Top CriticA willful mess made interesting by the talent that it attracted.
Far from the greatest story ever told.
Absolutely no saving graces here.
A fascinating mess.
The stellar but misguided cast ... is simply painful to watch as the doomed vehicle it's trapped in comes whistling toward a fiery crash landing.
Only the scenes of Dylan on stage really hold the attention.
...read as a collection of moments, mortared together with some stirring music, both from Dylan and his band and from others on the soundtrack.
Above all, it's an exercise in cryptic Dylan self-mythology.
The great neglected movie of 2003, a rambunctious, provocative, genre-defying, and constantly surprising experiment.
Watching the film is like listening to Art Bell babble about UFOs -- it seems always on the verge of making a point but never gets there.
The music was fine, the film wasn't.
Just because the movie is largely unintelligible doesn't make it unwatchable, though sometimes it's artful in the same way a train wreck can be graceful.
A nonsensical vanity project for singer Bob Dylan that wastes the talents of a lot of folks who should have known better.
With Sixties vigor and carefree looseness, the legendary musician and poet has given us a late-career "Purple Rain" that turns out to be a great bad movie.
The idea of a movie where Dylan essentially plays himself sounds kind of promising. Maybe someday that movie will get made. It's not this one.
Could just as well be titled 'Masters of War' or 'Tombstone Blues' or 'Everything Is Broken.' At every cut in the action, you expect a gray flannel dwarf to scream...
It's the sort of nonsense that's intriguing for about 15 minutes, simply because its incoherence approaches a surreal level. But then the novelty wears off, and it settles into being the worst thing a movie can be: boring.
A more maddening, incoherent, frustrating film you're not likely to see.
How much you end up liking the film probably relates to how much you sympathize with Dylan or Dylan-like characters.
Bob Dylan plays a thinly-disguised version of himself in this entertainingly overwritten star vehicle.
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