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Sorcerer
The film tells a story of four vagabond working in an oil-drilling company struggles for their living. One day, everything is out of control by fire, they realize a great opportunity to earn a lot of money by transporting dynamite through jungle in two trucks. Do they accept dangerous challenges to have new life?
2 February 1945
16 May 1920, Paris, France
3 September 1912, Berlin, Germany
2 August 1935, Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]
28 November 1924, Lyon, Rhône, France
7 December 1933, New York, USA
1 October 1940, Geneva, Switzerland
March 06, 2014
Breathtaking in its cinematography, production design and sound work, Sorcerer is a worthy contender for the film with the most suspenseful set-pieces in Hollywood history - if such an arbitrary title existed.
May 23, 2014
Friedkin's cyclical, almost Kafkaesque insistence that politics revolves around now globalized, corporate power delegating hired guns to do under-the-table bidding across national boundaries announces itself through the soundscape.
May 16, 2008
William Friedkin's Sorcerer is a painstaking, admirable, but mostly distant and uninvolving suspenser based on the French classic The Wages of Fear.
April 08, 2014
It's easy to be repelled by the film's relentless bleakness, but it's even easier to be entranced by its immense scale, impeccable craft and astonishing suspense.
April 22, 2014
Over the years, a certain mystique has surrounded Friedkin's dark tale, as is so often the case with lost films. Unlike many of them, though, Sorcerer delivers.
April 29, 2014
[...] a defiant, mad gesture of a film that features some of the most exhilarating sequences in movie history.
May 27, 2014
First and foremost a lavish entertainment, no matter its brief examination of oil politics.
April 21, 2014
Is it any wonder the film slipped into obscurity almost immediately after release? With the number of issues that pile up by the end of these two hours, an incredibly misleading title ends up being the least of its worries.
May 20, 2011
The new movie is handsomely shot and crisply edited. Why, then, does one rather distantly respect it instead of just plain liking it? It is an odd, disappointing feeling to take away from a summertime movie.
January 26, 2006
Friedkin hints at political themes, but the film suffers most from condescendingly over-emphatic direction, and a generally tedious, relentless grimy realism in the opening half hour.
May 28, 2014
By the time Sorcerer gets around to its rain-soaked, rickety-bridge set piece, you'll either be obsessed or fully checked out. Give yourself a chance to pick sides.
May 04, 2014
...a palpably overlong drama that's rife with superfluous scenes and subplots...