Sorcerer
by William Friedkin
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Actor: Amidou, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Ramon Bieri, Roy ScheiderDirector: William Friedkin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-11-17
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Sorcerer
DVD Review: Sorcerer and The Wages of Fear
Summary: 4 Stars
I had not seen Sorcerer since its original theatre release three decades ago. Actually, I had been searcher for the DVD for several years. I am a classic movie fan, and one of my favourites is the legendary 1950s French movie The Wages of Fear, of which Sorcerer is a remake. It doesn't quite come off, and is not nearly as good as the original French movie. Yet it grows on you. The first week it arrived I played it three times! I think it is somewhat mistitled, and that might be partly to blame for why it was such a box office flop. Roy Scheider is topnotch in the movie, and so is Bruno Comer. Indeed, all the actors give a credible performance. The last scene is haunting. Yes, I would recommend this movie - but play it three times before you make a judgement!DVD Review: I LOVE THIS FILM
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie didn't get great reviews. However, in my opinion, most film critics are too full of themselves. This is a GRITTY violent film with a very good story line. Great acting, direction and locations. The DVD does not come in Letterbox which is a drawback for me. DVD Review: Great dramatic thriller for its time!
Summary: 4 Stars
Not as good as i remember but the soundtrack! Get it! Great product received promptly. Thanks!DVD Review: Gritty Reality Play
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw "Sorcerer" when 14, and I thought it was terrible. In my 40s, I see it differently as a mirror on reality and as a great movie.
Whatever your current problems, they aren't as bad as those of the principal characters in this movie. They are four men who are refugees from greater society (a terrorist, a man wanted for high-stakes financial malfeasance, a petty criminal wanted by the Mob, and a professional assassin). They all flee to a nasty South American back water town, and then the sabotage of an industial facility 200 miles distant causes an oil well fire. Dynamite to put out the fire is located near the back water town, but it is very old and copiously leaching nitroglycerine. It has to be driven the 200 miles over truly bad third-world mountain-and-jungle roads, and the only available vehicles are a scrap heap of ancient trucks. The company asks for volunteers, and the four get selected. They cobble together two working trucks, and then the road trip begins.
What's great about the movie is watching how the men react to the enormous stress placed on them by the task they've accepted and how it tears them apart. They are beset by truly awful conditions (old and rotten rope-and-wood bridges, giant trees across the road, endless rain, crumbling mountainside roads, bandits, ec.) that take an enormous toll on the participants. It ends with the Roy Scheider character, clearly insane, hand-carrying the dynamite to the fire fighters. There is no happy ending here for anyone.
This was the movie William Freidkin made after "The Exorcist." Called, "The toughest, most relentless film in a long time" by a contemporary Newsweek review, it lives up to that and more. The score by synthesizer band Tangerine Dream helps propel the story along.
It is a great adventure movie.
DVD Review: Check it out
Summary: 4 Stars
William Freidkin's remake of "The Wages of Sin". Scheider's performance is great as always. Don't miss this one!
Description of Sorcerer
Following the blockbuster success of The Exorcist, director William Friedkin had the clout to make any film he wanted, and he nearly ruined his career making Sorcerer, an ill-fated remake of the classic French thriller The Wages of Fear. Given the big-budget treatment that Friedkin could command, the original plot remains unchanged: In an unnamed Latin American country, Roy Scheider leads a group of four fugitives who will earn their freedom if they can successfully transport truckloads of volatile nitroglycerine over treacherous terrain to extinguish a raging oil fire. The unstable explosives could prove deadly at any point of the journey, and numerous obstacles threaten the completion of the mission. Produced under rugged conditions in the jungles of the Dominican Republic, the film is visually impressive and contains intense moments of astonishing suspense, but the specter of the superior French version hangs over every scene. This version remains a folly of directorial ambition run amuck, but for the very same reason Sorcerer is a film that's hauntingly unforgettable, fueled by an atmosphere of dread and the forceful powers of nature. Presented in full-screen format on DVD, the film is aided immeasurably by Tangerine Dream's eerie electronic score. --Jeff ShannonGeneral DVDs
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