William Klein's Mr. Freedom is one of those satires that is so relentless, it comes off as loud and over-obvious, but its weirdness scores it a few points. Mr. Freedom himself is a trigger-happy, white nationalist, hyper-patriot in sports gear, brainwashed on the regular by Donald Pleasance (DOCTOR Freedom) and since this is a French movie, sent to France to investigate what happened to their neo-fascist hero Capitaine Formidable and deal with the Reds - with the help of Formidable's sidekick played by Delphine Seyrig (and now you know why I sought this out). Other well-known faces from French-language cinema appear, but often dubbed into English. Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum once wrote that it was "conceivably the most anti-American movie ever made" and that distinction may still stand over 50 years later, so don't expect the title character to have some kind of redemption. He and his network are rotten to the core. What's most shocking is that 1968 is basically today, politically, and that the movie's satire is still relevant. What's most STRIKING is the design elements - also credited to Klein, who is, after all, principally a photographer - that include big, bold colors and superheroes built out of balloons.

Can't believe this is on 4 lists. Felt like I was watching a Deuce movie.

It's like listening to your dad telling a political joke ... and telling it again ... and again ... and again ... it's an okay joke, not great, not bad as dad jokes go, and you get it ... but it's not funny after the first time, and yet he Keeps On Repeating It. For an hour and a half. It doesn't matter if you agree with the premise or not - it's 90+ minutes of the same mediocre joke over and over and over ...