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Homicides incontrôlés

Titre original : The Terminal Man
  • 1974
  • 16
  • 1h 44min
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5,6/10
2,8 k
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Homicides incontrôlés (1974)
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HorrorSci-FiThriller

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueHoping to cure his blackout seizures which turn him temporarily extremely violent, a computer scientist agrees to an experimental brain computer chip implant surgery.Hoping to cure his blackout seizures which turn him temporarily extremely violent, a computer scientist agrees to an experimental brain computer chip implant surgery.Hoping to cure his blackout seizures which turn him temporarily extremely violent, a computer scientist agrees to an experimental brain computer chip implant surgery.

  • Réalisation
    • Mike Hodges
  • Scénario
    • Michael Crichton
    • Mike Hodges
  • Casting principal
    • George Segal
    • Joan Hackett
    • Richard Dysart
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    2,8 k
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    • Réalisation
      • Mike Hodges
    • Scénario
      • Michael Crichton
      • Mike Hodges
    • Casting principal
      • George Segal
      • Joan Hackett
      • Richard Dysart
    • 45avis d'utilisateurs
    • 56avis des critiques
    • 41Métascore
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    The Terminal Man

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    George Segal
    George Segal
    • Harry Benson
    Joan Hackett
    Joan Hackett
    • Dr. Janet Ross
    Richard Dysart
    Richard Dysart
    • Dr. John Ellis
    • (as Richard A. Dysart)
    Donald Moffat
    Donald Moffat
    • Dr. Arthur McPherson
    Michael C. Gwynne
    Michael C. Gwynne
    • Dr. Robert Morris
    William Hansen
    William Hansen
    • Dr. Ezra Manon
    Jill Clayburgh
    Jill Clayburgh
    • Angela Black
    Norman Burton
    Norman Burton
    • Det. Capt. Anders
    • (as Normann Burton)
    James Sikking
    James Sikking
    • Ralph Friedman
    Matt Clark
    Matt Clark
    • Gerhard
    Jim Antonio
    Jim Antonio
    • Richards
    Gene Borkan
    • Benson's Guard
    Burke Byrnes
    • Benson's Guard
    Jordan Rhodes
    Jordan Rhodes
    • Questioner No. 1
    Dee Carroll
    Dee Carroll
    • Night Nurse
    Jason Wingreen
    Jason Wingreen
    • Instructor
    Steve Kanaly
    Steve Kanaly
    • Edmonds
    Al Checco
    Al Checco
    • Farley
    • Réalisation
      • Mike Hodges
    • Scénario
      • Michael Crichton
      • Mike Hodges
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    9spence100

    Brilliant - you could hang every shot on your wall

    Sadly, I first saw this movie as I was chopping time from it so that the Sci-Fi channel could run an 88 minute movie in a 2 hour slot. I hadn't seen it or heard of it before that, and I was completely blown away. It was menacing, threatening and extremely sad. I found the 'slow' pacing quite beautiful, and I loved the way that the colour within each scene slowly built as the movie progressed. Compare the monochromatic open to the closing cemetery scene. Colour comes as his life slips away. Beautiful. Favourite scenes: the helicopter taking off at the very beginning; Dr. Ross lying asleep on her bed, in her amazing 70's house, in that fabulous dress; Harry standing in the tunnel waiting for his ride from Angela. Do not judge this movie by today's standards. Open your mind, be patient, and pray that electrodes 31 & 32 may one day run your life! If, like me, you have seen and liked Andreas Gursky's photographs, you'll like this film.
    6Coventry

    Violent seizures and slow pacing don't mix very well

    I'm a big admirer of the writer Michael Crichton. Perhaps I'm a bigger admirer of his work than I am a fan of it, if that makes sense. I admire and tremendously respect Crichton because he was one of the sole Sci-Fi writers in history able to create an almost entirely new sub genre and yet remain creative and versatile within that sub genre. Even though his finest stories like "The Andromeda Strain", "Westworld", "The Terminal Man" and even "Jurassic Park" are seemingly very differing tales, they basically do share the same basic concept, namely artificial technology and/or science that develops and turns into a giant menace to the same human that created it. I'm also a big admirer of Michael Crichton because he was a very intelligent person – probably one of the only Sci- Fi/thriller novelists with a Harvard Medical School degree – and thus knew very well what he was writing about. The films he directed, as well as the ones adapted from his novels, are often extremely complex, talkative and stuffed with professional jargon. That's not because he was pretentious, but because he was an expert. Crichton referred to "The Terminal Man" as the worst adaptation of his work, but maybe that has to do with personal resentment because he was initially set to adapt his own novel and direct, but got fired by the directors.

    "The Terminal Man" is everything but a bad film, although it's fairly easy to see why many people dislike it. The brief plot description promises an exciting concept of a man suffering from psychosis who agrees to participate in a scientific/medical experiment in which a tiny computer is implanted in his brain that will keep his violent impulses under control. Although seemingly successful at first, the man's brain somehow becomes addicted to the little shocks that the electrodes are sending out, resulting in the triggering of even more violent impulses. If you read it like this, "The Terminal Man" sounds like a tense, exciting and action-packed thriller, but instead it's actually a slow-brooding, atmospheric and integer drama. It all is a bit misleading perhaps… The premise speaks of "A man suffering from a mental condition that often causes him to become homicidal", but we are only introduced to Harry Benson when he obediently awaits the operation and remains very calm and docile at all times. There are only a few photographs to indicate his violent nature. Then the operation itself is almost shown integrally, which raises the impression to last forever. Then, finally, the plot describes how Benson – and I quote – "escapes from the hospital and goes on a spree of violence and murder". Well, first of all, there's a long period of time between the operation and the escape in which barely anything happens. The so-called spree of violence and murder is somewhat exaggerated as well, since Benson only commits one murder (although admittedly a very savage one). However, to compensate for the lack of action, we do receive – next to the intelligent and tense script – a continuous series of extraordinary beautiful camera angles, compositions and set-pieces. Director Mike Hodges ("Get Carter", "Pulp") literally turns the film into a work of art, with stunning cinematography and exquisite use of classical music. I honestly wished for "The Terminal Man" to benefice from a faster pacing, a bit more background to Harry Benson's character, a bit less medical mambo-jumbo and a few more brutish murders.
    5AlsExGal

    It manages to make a modern Frankenstein story dull...

    ... and I am not saying slow, which is different from dull. "Babbette's Feast" is confined in cast and setting and although I guess you could call it slow, it is not at all dull. George Segal plays Harry Benson, a man with a form of epilepsy in which he becomes violent during his seizures and then awakens remembering nothing. He also is paranoid about machines controlling humans ten years before "The Terminator" was released.

    His wife leaves him, and it looks like his outbursts will have him traveling through the criminal justice system which can do nothing for this situation or maybe he will wind up shot dead by some would be victim.

    So some scientists think that Benson could be a beneficiary of an experimental procedure in which a small computer is implanted in his brain and his epilepsy is controlled by impulses the computer transmits. Post operation, things seem to be a success, but Dr. Janet Ross (Joan Hackett) discovers that Benson's brain is becoming addicted to the impulses, and in time - and she actually can calculate the time - he will have more frequent and severe violent outbursts.

    But before she can do any kind of medical intervention, Benson leaves. Apparently he has prearranged an escape with some woman he barely knows, sporting a blond wig so you can't tell he just had surgery.

    So the last half of the film is just Benson having those predicted seizures and becoming horrifically violent during each one. It doesn't have the pathos or irony of the Frankenstein monster's trek through the German countryside. Segal just begins to shake, his eyes roll up in his head, and he does violence to whomever and with whatever is at hand. That's it. That's essentially all that the last half is.

    George Segal never really got the credit he deserved for some of the really good roles he had in the 70s. This is not one of those good roles, and I really don't see how he or anybody else but the writer could have saved a film that is really only half there. I'd give the pre-escape part of the film a 7 or 8. I'd give the last half a three. This is where I come up with my 5/10 rating.
    6bgaiv

    NOT a thriller, but pretty good as long as you know what to expect

    This movie has a unique tone that's hard to define. "Bleak" comes to mind but is inadequate. It's as if Bleak came alive and made an even bleaker movie.

    That's one thing you need to know going in. The other is not that it's slow, but that it spends a ridiculous amount of time on the fictitious surgery. For example, the doctor almost hits a vein in the patient's brain which would have killed him. However, a surgical mistake can happen in any sort of surgery and this lengthy bit doesn't address the far more interesting ethical issues.

    This is in contrast to The Andromeda Strain. In that film, there are enormously detailed and lengthy scenes of the Wildfire lab. But the difference is that movie was more about the scientists and the lab than the germ itself. Here, that's just not the case.

    There's other parts of the film that provide a weird atmosphere yet seem entirely irrelevant. The doctor goes to a strip club to find Segal and while I like the music played, it's hard to see why this is here considering it's mostly focused on the stripper stage.

    The far more interesting issues are of course the ethical ones.

    The treatment they give this man is directly compared to lobotomies, a very dark page of medical history. After they install the device, they start activating different electrodes to see what happens... this isn't that much different than the lobotomy performed on Rosemary Kennedy where they kept cutting while talking to her to see the effects. It's incredibly chilling and plausible.

    A curiosity here is that there is essentially an ad for Scientology on the radio in the background in one scene. This makes sense considering their disdain for psychiatry which was rather well founded at least at the time.

    There's frustration here in that one huge theme seems to have been all but ignored-- that the patient was convinced computers would take over. I suppose the idea might have been that Segal was increasingly acting robotic... in several scenes when he's walking he does seem like a mindless drone. But I just saw him as a zonked out zombie and zombies are standard horror fare. It didn't occur to me that that might have been the idea until I was writing this review.

    Anyway, it's a fascinating watch as long as you know what you're getting into. It's definitely NOT a thriller. There are many striking visuals, like a long curious zoom on a parrot.
    5AaronCapenBanner

    Haywire & Empty Thriller.

    Based on the Michael Crichton novel, this adaptation(directed by "Get Carter" Mike Hodges) tells the story of computer programmer Harry Benson, who, in an attempt to cure his brain seizures, agrees to an experiment where he has micro-computers implanted in his brain, in order to correct the faulty brain chemistry. Things don't go as planned when his new mind starts to get pleasure from the violent impulses he now feels, and so escapes from the hospital, starting a desperate manhunt to prevent him from murdering anyone, and of course to cover-up the scientific failure.

    George Segal is believable as Harry, and the rest of the cast is fine, and though Mike Hodges tries, this film is simply too dreary and downbeat to succeed, and by the end, there doesn't seem to have been any discernible point to it all.

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    • Anecdotes
      Crichton was fired from writing the screenplay due to the fact that his script did not follow the novel (which he had written) closely enough.
    • Gaffes
      At the cemetery, the usual mechanism for lowering the coffin into the grave is missing. There aren't even any straps in place to lower it manually.
    • Citations

      Benson: [mumbles]

      Dr. John Ellis: [operating on Benson] What was that?

      Dr. Robert Morris: Patient.

      Dr. John Ellis: You all right, Mr. Benson?

      Benson: [groggily] Fine... fine...

      Dr. John Ellis: Any pain?

      Benson: No...

      Dr. John Ellis: Good. Just relax now.

      Benson: You too doctor...

    • Versions alternatives
      On its release at 2003 Edinburgh Film Festival, there was a director's cut which Hodges had cut out the beginning with the doctor looking at photographs of Harry Benson.
    • Connexions
      Featured in Cinemacabre TV Trailers (1993)
    • Bandes originales
      Goldberg Variation No. 25
      by Johann Sebastian Bach (as J.S. Bach)

      Played by Glenn Gould

      Courtesy Columbia Records

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    • How long is The Terminal Man?Alimenté par Alexa

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    • Date de sortie
      • 9 mars 1977 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • El hombre terminal
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Forest Lawn Memorial Park - 1712 S Glendale Avenue, Glendale, Californie, États-Unis(cemetery)
    • Société de production
      • Warner Bros.
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    • Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
      • 224 542 $US
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    • Durée
      1 heure 44 minutes
    • Mixage
      • Mono
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.85 : 1

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