Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

lukem-52760 Walter Hill is an amazing director he really is,he captures that fear & survival instinct in his movies especially here in the classic Southern Comfort (1981) & his other classic The Warriors (1979) with these two BRILLIANT films it's about that survival instinct & the fear of what do we do now? I absolutely love The Warriors & Southern Comfort they make an awesome double feature!!! Anyway southern comfort is a fantastically made Thriller that's very creepy & full of dread & hopelessness, it's all captured beautifully on screen something Walter Hill does the best!!! The cast is excellent especially keith carradine & powers booth these two guys are both very cool & rugged & very blue collar kinda men & work so well together & both give equally excellent performances & how could anyone forget how intense & suspenseful the third act is? Fantastic. No need to talk about the plot or story as tons of others have so i just wanna say how great this old school Thriller really is & it's BRILLIANT they really don't make movies this good anymore!!! There was always something very raw & gritty about movies made during the 70's & 80's that can't be captured in todays c.g.i infested cinema!!! So yeah if you love a good survival Thriller with action & a great musical score then definitely buy this because you're gonna wanna watch it lots. Another Walter Hill CLASSIC right up there next to The Warriors

karllocker Some films you may hear about and they slip your mind for years--mainly because hardly anyone ever sings its praises. Southern Comfort is a prime example. The cast is good, especially the two leads, but it amounts to a rehash of Deliverance with its "fear the Southern white man" message.The Guardsmen spend a great deal of time splashing through the bayou and complaining or going nuts or flashing their redneck credentials. Maybe in 1981 it was edgy, but there is something juvenile about it now. The whiny National Guardsmen were bad enough, but then when the filmmakers were pressed to build tension or perhaps to disgust some members of the audience, they throw in a couple of real animal deaths-two caged pigs shot on screen. Despite what some callous psycho said about it being a refreshing rejection of "Peta freaks," many people of all backgrounds and intellectual capacity would find the exploitation of real death for crass entertainment to be at the very least, in bad taste.If the message of the film is any commentary on a clash between civilization and the rustic, the filmmakers, ironically enough, manage to merge the two by achieving a kind of technological barbarism all their own. If I want a lesson in Southern Comfort, maybe I will read Mark Twain, who said: Man is the only animal who blushes. Or needs to.

Comeuppance Reviews In 1973, a regiment of the Louisiana National Guard travel out to the remote bayou for a routine training mission. The men, including Spencer (Carradine), Hardin (Boothe), Reece (Ward), Poole (Coyote), and Cribbs (Carter) have differing attitudes towards life and their situation. It all seems simple enough, but when they accidentally draw the ire of some local Cajun folk, the crafty Cajuns start killing them off one by one as punishment for their perceived incursion into their territory. Not to mention their capture of a local man, simply known as Trapper (James). Now trying to survive with limited resources in a harsh and unfamiliar environment, our National Guardsmen literally have to fight their own war at home. Who will die, who will survive, and who will live to find out the true meaning of SOUTHERN COMFORT? Only the genius of the great Walter Hill could take elements of the Wilderness Horror subgenre, the war movie, the Western, the suspense thriller, and the Asian-style "Heroic Bloodshed" film, and tie it all together with allegorical and metaphorical themes and undercurrents, all the while on the surface allowing it to appear to be a Deliverance/Most Dangerous Game-style survival outing. Strictly speaking, this isn't a straight-up action movie, though it certainly has those elements, but Hill's style, especially with this movie, was so imitated and duplicated in the years following this, we just had to include it here for being the benchmark that it is. Just watch any Cirio Santiago-directed jungle slog or any Italian war film shot in the Philippines (i.e. Eye of the Eagle III or Dogtags, respectively) and you'll see what we mean. The influence of Southern Comfort reverberated throughout the video store era of the 80's/early 90's and beyond, and it's easy to see why. There's a certain disturbing quality to it, especially in the final third. And as much as we enjoyed Hunter's Blood (1986), that film can't really compete with the staying power of Southern Comfort, because there's so much more depth here, despite the surface similarities. Or perhaps it's the presence of Joey Travolta. One or the other.The cast is killer, the Louisiana locations are both picturesque and unsettling (captured gorgeously by cinematographer Andrew Laszlo), and the Ry Cooder score is the icing on the cake. The cumulative effect of the clever writing, brilliant direction, the great cast, strange yet pretty locations and the top-notch score is powerfully effective. You can't ask for much more. If we have one minor quibble, it's that the 105-minute running time might have been able to be trimmed down a tad. But everything else is in the "win" column for this fine film.In high school English class, we learned about the four main drivers of narrative conflict. These are: Man against man, man against society, man against nature and man against self. Southern Comfort is one of the few movies that articulately expresses ALL of the four conflicts. But one of the other themes - and a constant in the work of Walter Hill - particularly stood out: the nature of masculinity. What does it mean to be "a man"? Is there a type of man that is "best"? One that is more effective? Does losing at a certain conflict make you "less of a man"? All these questions and many more are lurking just beneath the surface.Hill also shows that not all the Vietnam-era action happened in Vietnam. This provides a point of difference that is worth noting. There's some un-PC dialogue we all love and enjoy, and much like The Thing (1982), there are almost no women in the entire movie. The Shout Factory DVD/Blu-Ray combo is the package to buy - the movie looks brilliant and there is an insightful documentary included as well.Southern Comfort is much more than a "man's movie" - it cleverly explores themes that are damn near primordial in mankind. But it never loses its power to entertain, which is what good storytelling is all about. We strongly recommend it.

Scott LeBrun Extremely well directed, atmospheric thriller from dependable veteran Walter Hill. It gets a lot of mileage from its forbidding environment: the Louisiana swamps, which are very hard to navigate for those that aren't locals. And it's into these swamps that a bunch of city slickers, a macho team of National Guardsmen, must flee when they make the mistake of antagonizing some Cajun hunters in the area.The Guardsmen soon realize that they're lost, and appropriate some canoes belonging to the hunters. What makes matters worse is when team member Stuckey (Lewis Smith) fires his blanks at the approaching Cajuns, who relentlessly pursue the Guardsmen and set up all matter of traps for them. Unfortunately, our protagonists don't just have the Cajuns to worry about when they start fighting among themselves.As can be expected, Hill does an expert job of assembling an incredible male ensemble, full of rock solid actors. Powers Boothe plays Hardin, the odd man out in the main group because he's from Texas and doesn't particularly care for "redneck" characters. He's also one of the few characters on hand who has more than half a brain in his head, as far too many of the group are clearly unbalanced, and the second in command, Casper (Les Lannom), just isn't that effective in the leadership position. Also starring are a charismatic Keith Carradine, an intense Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales of "The Onion Field", T.K. Carter of John Carpenter's "The Thing", Alan Autry ('In the Heat of the Night'), and Brion James ("Blade Runner") in a great role as a grizzled, one armed Cajun trapper.Ry Cooders' flavourful music is wonderful, and the tension is undeniable, especially in the final scenes where one thinks that Carradine and Boothe may have found sanctuary in a nearby community but Boothe worries that their adversaries haven't given up and may show up any second. The production design by John Vallone and cinematography by Andrew Laszlo are also well worth mentioning.Look for Sonny Landham ("48 Hrs.", "Predator") in a bit part near the end as one of the hunters.Eight out of 10.