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

Good movie but grossly overrated

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Yeah, I didn't think much of this surrealist western, even though I was prepared to like it and WANTED to like it was I watched. By the end I couldn't help but feel it's another case of "the emperor's new clothes" in terms of style over substance, and the sum of the whole ending up much less than the individual parts.The story starts out straightforward enough, with a distinctive gunslinger discovering the aftermath of a massacre and vowing to take revenge on the outlaws responsible. Once that story is out of the way, though, it starts getting weirder and weirder, almost existentialist, as the gunslinger has encounters with a series of deity-like characters in the desert and undergoes a religiously significant transformation. By the end, I was quite frankly bored.Here's the good stuff: Jodorowsky's cinematography, which is glorious. EL TOPO is vibrant-looking and colourful throughout, and I love the use of surreal imagery which really works. There are poignant scenes and flashes of Peckinpah-style ultra-violence and the contrasting elements are mixed together well. It's just the script, really, which lets it down, becoming too abstract; I always prefer a more concrete narrative as a basis on which to pin the more fantastic elements, but EL TOPO is lacking such a construct and at times just seems to be being made up as it goes along.

Saw this when it came out many years ago, and was appalled to find that so many of my friends considered this mess to be a 'good' movie. It is, in fact, a pastiche of art film clichés with a load of whipped cream, jimmies and a cherry-on-top existentialism for idiots. I commented at the time on how the visuals were perceived within the framework of drug culture stating that while stoned on pot and well under the influence, 'El Topo' becomes a violent, would-be erotic freak show, and that, I suppose can be very heavy for some viewers. For others, it is enough to make one yawn. So, take your drugs, let your jaw drop, and try to enjoy this watered down knock off of many better films. It certainly didn't work for me.Yes, it has some unusual imagery, designed to fascinate the clueless and titillate the TV hypnotized hordes, but in total, it is no more meaningful than an 'in depth' article in USA Today. A poor sensationalist film by a minor director whose subsequent career foundered badly.

"El Topo" is one movie that will probably not leave people neutral. Alejandro Jodorowsky's underground masterpiece about a gunfighter on a quest for enlightenment almost seems like a joke given the over-the-top violence, but is one of the most impressive pieces of work. I figure that the movie very likely irritated the religious authorities due to one scene in particular. But the movie is truly something that you have to see to believe. It's sort of half-western, half-mysticism, with the main character's journey mirroring the efforts of a mole to find the light. It's easily the sort of movie that Quentin Tarantino could've directed. Overall, one might call "El Topo" the supreme rejection of the John Wayne type of westerns. If in fact Jodorowsky ever gets around to making a sequel, I'll be eager to see how he continues the story. Really good movie.

i refuse to appreciate a film just because it is different n surreal or due to the wider opinion of the movie bourgeois that only they can enjoy it and thus are elite or of a more intelligent constitution and those who cant are vermin. there are many movies in this genre n of course the attributes on which a movie is merited are debatable but the foremost dharma of a movie is enjoyment of the viewer. i feel this does not achieve that. it comes across as a misguided eastern fixation and its erroneous interpretation, not unknown in the western civilization unfortunately, together with the horrible amalgamation of it with a western, ritualistic scenes and unnecessary violence which has culminated in this work.