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What a brutal, haunting, mesmerizing fever dream that was. Another Top 10 of the Year entry for me I believe, with stellar performances throughout. It definitely takes a while for things to properly get going, but if you like the eerie cult angle on display, then you'll be entertained the entire runtime as I was. Very intriguing, I guarantee it'll be one of the more unique films you experience in quite some time, elevated by the late Johann Johannsson's ethereal score.
Be watching this soon. Looking forward to it.
Nothing like the first two Predator movies. It was action comedy. Felt a little like Disney owned movie, with a lot of cursing and cgi blood thrown in the mix to make it feel like it was trying to be hard R, like the first two.
But funny enough I enjoyed it for what it was. But it has nothing on the originals.
Used to be my favourite Walter Hill film, but at least 3 others above it now. Still an excellent film.
A group of National Guard troops on training in the swamps of Louisiana, end up getting lost and when a practical joke against the local Cajun, goes wrong, they find themselves been hunted!
Unfairly compared to Deliverance, and with Vietnam allegory claims (denied by Hill) this is a cracking thriller with a superb ensemble cast including Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Peter Coyote and Keith Carradine! Great production values (never has a swamp looked so good under Andrew Laszlos cinematography!) Hill stages great set pieces...an attack by wild dogs, trees being felled in their path and it builds to a terrificly tense finale in a Cajun village, accompanied by a great Ry Cooder score!
The cast all get to shine (Carradine has a memorable speech about how long it will take for a search party to come looking for them!)
And even lesser known supporting actors (the villagers, the hunters) make an impression. Am in the mood for more of Hills work, maybe Johnny Handsome, or The Driver next!
How would this work,since
The most likely answer would be that it follows the book rather than the film. It'll likely be broad strokes stand alone, not a true sequel.
Agreed,i cant really see any alternative.
But alas, it just didn't add up for me. The two hours plus five minutes dragged in places. Acting was so-so. Joseph Wiseman gave an absolute caricature of a 1930s Mafia Boss, complete with an exaggerated fake Italian accent. But what annoyed me the most was the sloppiness with which they created the historical setting. When Valachi/Bronson drives a car into the East or Hudson River (whichever it might be), and this is supposed to be 1931 judging from the license plate, you see not only the Brooklyn Bridge in the background (which was there at the time), but quite obviously the World Trade Center twin towers, still under construction at the time of filming about forty years later, I believe. There are several scenes in which the gangsters' 1930s' car drives through NYC night traffic...surrounded by a bunch of late 1950s tailfinned cars*. Even when the movie shows Valachi browsing through B/W photographs of assassinations taking place in the '30s, the pictures show 1950s' cars with those wraparound windshields and the like. In one scene, the U.S. flag is obviously one with 50 stars, more than 20 years before Alaska and Hawaii were added.
*I just learned from IMDb in their "Goofs" section it is in fact a 1960 Ford in the first instance. Also, my other complaints have been levied by others as well.
Anyway, this cheapens the movie for me quite considerably. Why can't they do something like that right, instead of failing to do so just to possibly save some bucks?
BTW, a more grown-up version of The Warriors is Judgement Night (1993, dir. Stephen Hopkins of Predator 2 fame). Very good obviously Hill-inspired flick.
Wow... This was a mess. TERRIBLE MOVIE.
The worst Lynch has ever done.
To be fair it was an ambitious project to take on and i think during filming Lynch realized the film was going to be a lemon.
I have the score it is very good
This movie was bonkers but it was hilarious. It's a very cheap looking film but it's worth watching to see Michael Caine and Roger Moore in duel roles. Caine's American accent is one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time. Some familiar faces show up as well. It's a pretty entertaining movie. :))
I need to watch this film! Two of my favourite actors right there - and together! :-D
It's worth a watch. If you look past the cheap production design, It's really entertaining. I thought all the jokes were hilarious. Moore and Caine do what they do best. You won't regret it.
I love this movie.
And that castle balcony gag. So stupid! :))
Sold! Will try to find a copy eventually (edit: looks like Amazon got it). :-)
I watched it on youtube.
Thanks for the link; bookmarked it for viewing later!
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I most definitely will! I know I've heard about this film before, but didn't know before @Murdock posted about it just now, that Moore and Caine played together in the film.
Hopefully you won't lose out on stuff that's important for the plot?
I watched Bullseye on release its daft and very much a British film if its time. Its crazy that Michael Winner directed it, and Winners wife was in it Jenny Seagrove.