federovsky Adaptated by Tennessee Williams from "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore", he obviously pulled in a few of his old friends to get this done. It's a gender-bending allegory with Liz Taylor as rich, dying Sissy Goforth, a bad-tempered recluse in her remarkable clifftop Mediterranean villa. Along comes Dick Burton, a freeloader-cum-Grim Reaper figure who sees it as his mission to help ladies in extremis.Neither of them are right for their roles, but that only adds a certain fascination - a totally earnest rendition would be dull and pretentious. Taylor lets rip here and it's a riot. The highlight is her dinner with Noel Coward playing a role originally meant for a woman. She is wearing an utterly outrageous kabuki outfit while Coward camps it up like there's no tomorrow, which is no doubt the film's theme.The script is full of naff psychology, Taylor is shrill and unpleasant, Burton looks like he's on vacation. With this set-up, Losey hasn't the slightest chance of delivering his usual sophisticated, simmering subtlety, and maybe that was fortuitous - this is so godawful it's brilliant.

ptb-8 This astonishing waste of production money is filmic proof that the rich and famous can be just as stupid and wasteful as politicians. From a (silly) play by Tennessee Williams and directed (with a dead hand) by Joseph Losey and starring Taylor and Burton and Noel Coward - this project filmed in a spectacular cliff-top mountain island mansion in the Mediterranean must have seemed a sure fire winner when presented to Universal in 1967. The result is so absurd and tedious that it almost defies belief. Visually the film is spectacular but that is the force of nature that has allowed the setting and the fact that a real home is used instead of a set. The shrill antics of a screeching Taylor, Burton's half asleep wanderings, the loony dialog, Noel Coward laughing at himself, the ridiculous story and plot devices and the absurd costuming simply irritate the viewer. BOOM is a disgrace, a waste of money and talent and clear proof that lauded famous people can be idiots just like the rest of the planet's plebs. Not even fun. Just terrible and mad shocking waste.

noorym I LOVE LOVE LOVE "Boom"!It is so over the top that every time I see it I literally howl with amazement. Elizabeth Taylor's costumes are eye-popping. Granted, Burton is too old to really be taken seriously, but then the whole film is such a whoop! that you can't take it seriously anyway. I would highly suggest seeing this film if you are a lover of overdone melodrama and just plain ridiculous fun. BOOM! The whole scene where Taylor serves a hideous fish to Noel Coward is incredible. I also thought that the set was incredible to look at. It's stark yet lavish at the same time. Why don't I know anyone like these characters? BOOM!I say.

amedusa50x "Boom" is a BOMB, but it's a totally lovable bomb if you have even half a heart and a fully developed sense of the bizarre. John Waters (director of "Pink Flamingos") loves this movie, and so do I, probably for different reasons, but that's the beauty of wacky movies like "Boom." I love "Boom" because it's such a breathtakingly beautiful mess, just like Liz Taylor herself at the time she starred in it. Richard Burton is a lovely mess in this film as well; he's as hunky as ever, but his years of boozing are beginning to show. Thing is, if any two actors colliding with each other -- and with an outrageously choppy screenplay (written by the great Tennessee Williams himself; what was he THINKING?) -- can look absolutely divine while they're making the best of a bad situation, Liz and Richard can (and do) pull it off in "Boom." Frankly, I don't see how anybody could pass up a movie that features Michael Dunn (remember him from "Ship of Fools"?) playing a smirking, sadistic, jack-booted dwarf who thinks he's a generalissimo; the world famous playwright Noel Coward turning in a delightfully queeny version of himself at his prissiest; and the veteran Italian actor Romolo Valli ("The Garden of the Finzi-Continis," "1900") going all-out to make a fool of himself as a dope-pushing doc-for-hire ... for what more could you ask, except maybe Liz and Richard, and "Boom" has them all! That's not even the best part. The best part is the island of Sardinia, where the film was flawlessly photographed. If the dwarf and his vicious little doggies don't amuse you and Liz's goblet-smashing antics tend to annoy you, not to worry. "Boom" delivers such stunning photography of the wild beauty of Sardinia's unspoiled coastline that you won't run out of things to look at, not for an instant. "Boom" is total eye candy. As a Camp classic, it's tough to beat. If you adore Liz Taylor at her brattiest on the screen when she's insulting all the servants and chewing the scenery without even smudging her lipstick, this is the film for YOU!