GRADE: 8.5
Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous South American jungle.
Director: William Friedkin
Country of Origin: USA | Mexico
Thoughts:
It’s easy to see why Sorcerer bombed with audiences: the title is confusing and misleading, it opens with disconnected, subtitled vignettes, and it takes a good hour to get to the most gripping part of the movie. As it happens, it’s a challenging, but intense and rewarding experience—a grueling, but gripping journey from one tension-filled sequence to another. Friedkin asks a lot of the viewer: the soundtrack is cold and alienating, the visuals gritty and murky, and the sentiment cynical and downbeat. But it all adds up to a distinctive, uncompromising film that closes the chapter on the American auteur experiment of the 1970s with a literal bang.