Sorcerer

Sorcerer

1977 · 121 min · EN · PG · 7.4 (437 votes)
Dir. William Friedkin · Starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri, Peter Capell · Music Christopher Franke

The only wages worth running for, dying for, killing for, are the wages of fear

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Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

VIBE

A suffocatingly tense, sweat-drenched descent into desperation. This film feels like a slow-motion train wreck, a grim existential journey where every moment is fraught with impending doom. The oppressive atmosphere and relentless score amplify the feeling of inescapable fate.

tensegrittydread-soakedbleaksweatyslow-burngritty realismneo-noircharacter study70s cinemadesperationfatesurvivalexistentialism
explosivedynamitecar journeynicaraguanitroglycerinelectronic music scorecriminalbanditrope bridgeexistentialismdangerous mission
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