This typically enigmatic movie from director Michelangelo Antonioni portrays what happens to a burnt-out TV reporter (Jack Nicholson) who adopts the identity of a dead man (a gunrunner) and loses himself in Africa's civil wars. Antonioni's favourite theme of the emptiness of existence is examined here, along with a visual debate about the exploitation of the Third World. And like his preceding movies Blowup and Zabriskie Point, it's a meandering if dreamlike experience. However, the film has a wonderful hypnotic atmosphere, thanks to Nicholson's excellent performance and the magnificent location photography of the Sahara and the Gaudi buildings in Barcelona. And the long final sequence, shot without the aid of a Steadicam, is a dazzling tour de force that will leave you both amazed and puzzled.