The Final Programme

The sight of the misshapen messiah will certainly send shudders down the spine of those who have stuck with the stylised imagery and apocalyptic incidents that comprise this baffling adaptation of one of Michael Moorcock's "Jerry Cornelius" stories. But many more will have long since despaired of finding any tangible meaning in this fatally flawed fantasy that ends with a cruel joke at the expense of 2001: a Space Odyssey. Patrick Magee, Graham Crowden and George Coulouris make fearsome adversaries, but Jon Finch's bid to save both his sister and the planet are confounded by director Robert Fuest's preoccupation with look over logic.