1977 · thriller · adventure
Sorcerer
Directed by William Friedkin2h 2m1977
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.
Our read: Sorcerer (1977) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded thriller · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme thriller / adventure, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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“You want sweat-on-your-palms tension where every bump could detonate the trucks.”
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