If there is one thing I liked about this movie, since for something not to be horrible I kind of HAVE to like at least something, it would be the actor Rod Steiger. Under its skin, there lies something great but the material here was nearly abused. However, "The Illustrated Man" is a fascinating film looking for someone who can light it up. I've seen many films, and that's what I gathered. Kind of like the movie, although some mediocre movies can have good direction. Then there's the direction, which is sadly, just plain mediocre. I had a big problem with the story-telling, which seems like it has ambitions to be off-kilter, but is really nothing but boring and nigh rubbish. It's not necessarily an insulting bankruptcy of imagination, but none the less, it's not the work of a talented or original filmmaker. Other than that, the film is a failure stylistically and intellectually. I don't mind slow-paced films some of them use such pacing to think, make us sympathize, and whatnot but that's just not what happens here. The film is slow-paced, which will piss of many people, including me. Through these visions, we get to witness sequences which were directed with ambitions to be fascinating and fantastical, but end up being underwhelming. The rest of the film is the wanderer staring at the illustrations and getting visions ones which the "illustrated man" ferociously warned him about earlier. And that's really all there is to the film, but I suppose I'll have to go a little more "in-depth" if you want to believe me. As it turns out, he got these "illustrations" from a sort of tattoo artist, but these tattoos came with a price. A man who is simply wandering the world happens upon a man with fascinating body illustrations all over his torso and who-knows-where that is the premise of the film. I was actually beginning to like this thing in those moments, which were never fascinating, but none the less entertaining. The film is pretty entertaining near the beginning.
By the time it got to the half-way point, I had ran out of sympathy. I guess I wouldn't call the film "bad", but it is boring and tedious pretentious and less fascinating than it wants to be. This adaptation of "The Illustrated Man" was made for them a film which was, unfortunately, a big fat disappointment from beginning to end. Science fiction fans are forgiving people human beings capable of enjoying a good old fashion sci-fi story even when it's one that's been overused or repeated over time, often to excess.
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