Land Of The Blind

First-time writer-director Robert Edwards is nothing if not ambitious, attempting to encapsulate the history of totalitarian oppression and misguided revolutionary zeal into a broad, blunt, black comedy. It begins in the middle, as B&W newsreel footage establishes the reign of brutal dictator Maximilian Bonaventure and his deranged son, Maximillian II (Tom Hollander) — known to all as "Junior" — while pawn of history Joseph Sloan (Ralph Fiennes) sits in a cell writing the story of his radicalization. Five years earlier, Joe had been a guard at R-28, a notorious prison located in an unnamed police state at some indeterminate point in history. Junior and his viciously ...