Huston seems inhibited rather than inspired by [the material]: his energy bottled up and his camera forced to a standstill by careful compositions.

While in different hands (Orson Welles's, for instance) these radical themes could have inspired more hallucinatory, probing, and inward images, Huston nonetheless evokes an apt sense of wonder, admiration, and awe.

...a film of considerable artistic and intellectual merit, and deserves recognition as something other than a production nightmare.

Here's a movie where the dream sequences appropriately enhance rather than injure the story.