Catch-22
The film follows the story of Captain John Yusarian (Alan Arkin), a pilot based in the Mediterranean, where he performs several different missions. John is engaged in dangerous missions through heavy bombing during World War II. John desperately tries to run away and maintains his life by completely moving away from his painful and absurd attitude in his mission.
6 May 1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
6 July 1930, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
24 April 1928, New York City, New York, USA
17 July 1900, Paris, France
30 December 1935, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
14 March 1938, Madison, Connecticut, USA
24 March 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
6 August 1938, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
21 May 1933, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
July 26, 2002
Can't capture the brilliance of the source material ... but does a pretty good job all the same.
October 26, 2008
If you liked M*A*S*H, You'll love this!
November 23, 2014
The film is cynical and bitterly cold. Nichols has hit one out of three virtues.
May 30, 2005
Still positively chilling.
October 23, 2004
Nichols has done the same thing in "Catch-22" that he did in "The Graduate." He's given us a funny beginning, then switched tones and gone serious.
May 13, 2004
Starts out pretty funny, gets incredibly weird by the end.
October 13, 2008
What a strange and mesmerizing folly.
August 13, 2003
Flawed, but frequently brilliant.
May 20, 2003
Quite simply, the best American film I've seen this year.
June 19, 2003
A mess, occasionally a fascinating one.
July 22, 2005
Released during the Vietnam War, the movie was a commercial failure, but seen from today's perspective, its black humor holds up well.
February 09, 2006
Though the vertiginously absurdist logic of the book is hopelessly fractured, some of it does filter through (the mostly superb performances are a great help).
