Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

christopher-underwood This is a good looking film with many varied scenes and set-ups designed to create interest and sustain suspense. The main problem is those mini biographical prologues, apparently taken out of most European release prints. In a wonderful, almost feature length interview on the Blu-ray release Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn both enthuse over these anti-hero participants. Trouble is, for the casual viewer, the lack of involvement with these 'bad men' may reduce the stress of the suspense scenes but without it those long stretches of endeavour can become wearing. There are odd inconsistencies throughout the film regarding financial payments, routes to be taken and effects of their efforts and occasional uncomfortable jump cuts but the Tangerine Dream music sustains us, just about.

jjclaus This film is extremely suspenseful and exciting with raw film locations, tension, and excellent character development. Four men risk their lives to escape squalid living conditions in a Latin American country to where they each had fled. But, Fate hangs over the men and will not let them go. The French businessman, Bruno Cremer, discusses the absolute whim of Fate with his wife in a novel she is writing. The idea of instant annihilation is repeatedly visited through the film as these desparate men cannot escape it. There is no safety for the desparate men as you root for them to succeed in the perilous task of transporting unstable explosives over moutains and primative jungle terrain. The four men: a mobster (robbery), a businessman (fraud), a terrorist (bombing), and an assasin (contract murder) are all fleeing from their criminal pasts but cannot escape the cloud of Fate hanging over them. After seeing this film I think "That should not have happened to them", or "They did not deserve that". "They should have escaped that fate because of the tremendous effort and risk they took." It is not to be. This film will not let you go just as it treats its characters. Friedkin's best film!!

capone666 SorcererThe funniest jungle game to play is: Who can eradicate the lost tribe first?But a close second has to be transporting dynamite, like in this thriller.In the jungles of Latin America, a hitman (Francisco Rabal), a Middle Eastern militant (Amidou), a fraudulent investor (Bruno Cremer) and a low-level thug running from the mob (Roy Scheider) are brought together for a suicide mission.Out of sheer desperation, each marked man agrees to drive a truckload of dynamite through the rainforest to a nearby oilrig fire. Unfortunately, the dynamite is sweating explosive beads of nitroglycerin that will detonate at the slightest jar.Even though this white-knuckle roller-coaster ride had mega redemption metaphors and an ethereal musical score by Tangerine Dream, Sorcerer's ambiguous title helped it to be obscured by the sci-fi groundswell of 1977. Nonetheless, a dynamite truck in the seventies was less likely to explode than a Ford Pinto. Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

mythicdcuo a Palestinian terrorist, a french Hit-man, an American Mob, and french fraud that will go to Jail in 24 Hours time, all tied together by fate in small Spainish village, William friedkin made one the greatest movies of the 20 century when he made Sorcerer (1977) ironically it was attacked from critrics all over the world, 30 years later cinema became what mr friedkin had imagined it in 1977 when he made Sorcerer Oddly enough, there is still to this day with this technology some movies that didn't learn from Sorcerer and the depth of simplicity in it Although i couldn't help but to think of the great Costa-Gavras's films and the inspiration it had on Sorcerer If you scraped down every greatest shots of all time lists, inevitable you'll find it crowded with shots from Sorcerer, The second hour of the film is full of never- seen-before intensity in modern American cinema, i don't like to think of it as Wages of fear remake Rather i'd like to think of as psychological human study kinda film, it only has the elements of the great wages of fear by Henri Clouzot Just when you think mr friedkin and roy Scheider gave their best performance of their life in the French connection, you stumble upon Sorcerer (1977) an utterly shattering film. 10/10