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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: June 24, 1970 |
Starring:
Alan Arkin, Anthony Perkins, Art Garfunkel, Bob Newhart, Buck Henry, Jack Gilford, Martin Balsam, Martin Sheen, Paula Prentiss, Richard Benjamin
Summary:
A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.
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Catch 22 will be remembered as a screamingly terrifying and funny interpretation of Joesph Heller's classic work. [27 July 1970, p.42]
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). Nichols unfortunately grafts on a Meaningful Statement by way of a ponderous Fellini-ish sequence in which Yossarian, on leave in Rome, finds himself wandering the seventh circle of hell.
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This film wants to be bleak, nihilistic, and darkly hilarious but Catch-22 emerges as an exercise in frustration for those unprepared for Nichols's episodic, detached, and surreal treatment of the novel. Like a nightmare, the film shifts from one bizarre episode to another, with Alan Arkin's dazed Yossarian reacting to the madness that surrounds him, but second only to the viewer.
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