Last month I wrote about intending to rewatch William Friedkin's 1977 film Sorcerer. I thought it was great at the time but hadn't seen it since, and some movies just don't wear well (Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid for instance, which I rewatched last year), but finally watched it recently and Sorcerer remains a great film. Gritty, tense, thrilling, existential. Four fugitives scraping out a bare existence in a jungle shanty town of an unnamed Latin American country. Desperate to get enough money to obtain exit visas they accept a job driving two trucks loaded with cases of nitroglycerin more than 200 miles through brutal jungle and mountain terrain to be used to put out an oilfield fire.
The movie actually looks better than I remembered. Not a lot of dialogue and some of the most nerve-wracking scenes on film. It must have been a nightmare to make the movie, which went way over budget and was a flop when released.
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