IMDb plot summary: Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous Latin American jungle.
Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, and Francisco Rabal.
Sorcerer is a remake of The Wages of Fear, a film I am pretty sure I have seen but don’t remember it at all. I should go back and rewatch it, because while this movie takes a very long time to get going, the second half is pretty riveting. The story centers around a group of drivers attempting to get some extremely dangerous explosives from one South American town to another, traveling through the jungle at risk of blowing themselves to bits if they hit a pothole too hard. It’s a great premise that leads to an incredibly tense second half that moves just as slowly as the first half, but this time, you’re on the edge of your seat. I’m not fully convinced that the slow setup was quite as warranted -- it felt like we spent a lot of time with these various characters and somehow still never got to know any of them. It makes up for it by the end, and a really beautifully-shot penultimate scene, but I wish the first half either gave me something more substantial or sped things along a bit. Still very worth watching, and I do want to go back and rewatch the original in the near future, so that’s a win!
How it entered my Flickchart:
Sorcerer > Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
Sorcerer < Elf
Sorcerer < The Pianist
Sorcerer > The Sea Gull
Sorcerer > The Parent Trap (1961)
Sorcerer < A Star Is Born (1954)
Sorcerer > Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Sorcerer < It's a Gift
Sorcerer < All About My Mother
Sorcerer > The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Sorcerer > Kiss Me Kate
Sorcerer < Let the Right One In
Final spot: #1600 out of 4034, or 60%.
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