Amazone (2000)

Amazone is a French adventure film first released in 2000, directed by Philippe de Broca.  The film stars Jean-Paul Belmondo, Arielle Dombasle, Patrick Bouchitey, Thylda Barès and André Penvern.  It has also been released under the title: Amazon.  Our overall rating for this film is: very poor.


Jewel thief Edouard takes refuge from the authorities and womenfolk in the Amazonian forest, but his peace is soon disturbed by the appearance of a strange young girl, Lulu.  Intelligent way beyond her years, Lulu reveals that she is an extra-terrestrial – a fact which makes her the subject of a search by a commando unit and an astronomer Dr Margaux.  Unfortuantely, Lulu has forgotten to bring with her the anti-ageing pills which keep her young.  Within a matter of hours, she will have aged to death…

This sixth collaboration of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo and director Philippe de Broca is one to be avoided at all costs.  De Broca’s imagination and energy have clearly been depleted by this stage in his career, although it would take an army of Fellinis to make anything special of the trite nonsense that masquerades as a screenplay.  Add to that a distinctly lacklustre performance from Belmondo and a hypoactive Arielle Dombasle at her most painfully annoying (she’s obviously auditioning for a job as a presenter on childen’s TV) and what you get is very probably the most excruciatingly bad piece of “family entertainment” for centuries.

© James Travers 2006

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