I saw this recently because Quentin Tarantino liked it. The script does not work. Great director, good actors, lots of money. Poor pacing, and the second half of the film makes no sense in parts.

Just the kind of bleak, realistic adventure you're anticipating. Delivers on all fronts and gives a great sense of immersion. Technically impressive and doesn't skimp on the effects. Thrilling, gritty, and a great twist, will leave viewers happy.

Seriously, Sorcerer sucked. Meaningless plot that went no where. A hobbled together, waist of time intro of two flat, unbelievable characters to explain why they end up in the jungle. Not that their specific presence has any relevance of transporting nitro. A bad movie that did not age well, making it a shitty movie (except for the creation of the piss poor jungle town, which was well done).

The thriller was directed by William Friedkin. The film stars Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Amidou, and Francisco Rabal. The film is an adaptation of Georges Arnaud's 1950 French novel 'Le Salaire de la peur'. The novel was originally adapted in the film The Wages of Fear, released in the early 1950s. The film begins with four individuals struggling in a South American country after fleeing their original homelands because their lives were in danger. The film's beginning is rather long and may lose the audience's interest, but the growth of the characters and their need to be in a South American country where they are unable to find work to escape their agony was vital. As the film near its finale, it loses weight and intrigue; several main characters have been murdered off, and as the titles roll, we are perplexed by the destiny of the last surviving man.

This should be renamed "Blueballs: The movie". A very slow, dull, boring film with small spurts of humor, suspense, and action in between. Every time something is happening, or is about to happen, there's an immediate jump cut to something else loosely related or not related at all. You'll be thinking "I cant wait to see how they flesh this out" and then BAM, the interesting thing disappears immediately and its time to move on. The main characters have interesting backgrounds, but none of that matters because their relevance is gone as soon as they are introduced. Only two brief scenes in the whole movie, one non-speaking, make any connection between these characters and their past. A hand full, and I really mean a hand full, of scenes are included that look like they each could've made their own movie, a good movie, or at least one more interesting than this one. It's a shame because I love many films from this era but this is one of those pieces of garbage that chooses to be excessively experimental over being good. Keeping in line with the historical lens of this movie, I decided to follow up by watching a good film: Star Wars.

The 1970s are known for some of the best filmmaking for a reason. In Sorcerer, we get a story low on the dialogue and high on tension. Four men (Roy Schneider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and “Amidou”) from four different pockets of the world find themselves in an impoverished Central/South American village called “Porvenir” in an unidentified country. For four different reasons, these men have everything to gain and nothing to lose when they are tasked with transporting two truckloads of dynamite (with leaky nitroglycerin) from one dense jungle-laden location to another to stanch the detrimental externalities of an oil well explosion. Friedkin’s film is full of intense moments of practical effects concerning terrorist attacks, mob violence, and nail-biting, sphincter-clenching moments of hole-mottled, rust-pocked trucks traversing log bridges. The “light from window” shot in The Exorcist may be my single favorite shot in all of cinema. Friedkin provides a similar shot when we are first introduced to the revamped “Sorcerer” truck here, with a backlit, white nimbus halo in the sleeting rain that tells us, “It’s go time”. Instantly, you’ll fall in love with the score and only upon writing this review did I discover it was none other than Tangerine Dream. This is a great movie that was overshadowed with the contemporaneous release of Star Wars. This is a cinephile’s movie.

I saw this movie originally when I was in high school. Just so you know, there are no sorcerers in this movie and I don't know why they chose the name, but this is definitely a must see watch. The movie starts slow showing the lives of each of four men that come together later in the movie. It then turns into an action and adventure movie with some amazingly suspenseful scenes that you will ever see. Watching the bridge scene was super intense and had me on the edge of my seat throughout the entire sequence. I deducted one star for the slow first 30 minutes but trust me it's well worth getting through for the last 90 minutes of the movie.

A great remake of Wages of Fear. Probably in my top 10 favorite movies. Tangerine Dream did an awesome score and you feel like you're right there in the rainforest with the visuals and sound effects. A thrill ride.

Great movie, but I found the first half hard to follow. The whole movie is shot in a kind of confusing way. But the second half of the movie is just amazing! There is a scene that left me with an expression that no other movie gave me.

There's clearly something here of substance if you're patient enough to find it. For me it had serious pacing issues and the first hour was a bit of a slog to sit through

Superb adaptation of the "Wages of Fear" that, while not as perfect as the original, since makes for a tense thrill ride. The cast is excellent across the board, with Roy Schneider giving one of his best lead performances as a mobster on the run. Best of all, none of them portray good guys, as the opening segments shows, but you still root for them due to the crazy adventure they must go on. Behind the camera, director William Friedkin crafts one of his best movies that is much more appreciated today. The action is superb and the film does have better production values than the original (the crossing the bridge scene is absolutely nail biting). However, despite those opening scenes, the characters are not as developed as the first film. Overall, just a great thrill ride of a movie.

Really under rated. The first half of this movie has you glued to your seet, the second half has you hanging off the edge of it. A must watch for any movie fan.

The 1970's delivered a lot of great films & one is "Sorcerer" by the late William Friedkin. A story of four strangers with less than desirable past to escape & a desperation to survive which makes it near gut-wrenching to see what happens after surviving some of the most nerve-wracking moments captured on film. The ending is perfect as it lingers on Roy Scheider's emotionless look in his eyes which expresses the journey throughout the film & the life they can't escape. The soundtrack from Tangerine Dream just adds that extra sense of suspense & urgency.

This movie surprisingly sucked me in. To be such an old film and have me so vested in the outcome of this road trip. Good story.

intense, hard-bitten blokes film. great back stories, great dynamics, awesome sense of the jungle against you, and good soundtrack.

Go, watch it, if you have the chance. it takes a little build up, but give it a try and you get one of the best thriller ever done, an exercise in suspense. Great cast too.

Dark, grim, and one of the most suspenseful films ever. An underappreciated classic.

Spoiler: the premise that taking dangerously old dynamite on decrepit old trucks on horrendously bad roads rather than lifting it in a helicopter would be less likely to result in bumps that might cause the dynamic to explode was frankly ridiculous, which made the subsequent footage equally ridiculous. But even if you allowed for that, none of the characters had any qualities that might make you care about what might happen to them if they did happen to bump the dynamite, so for me at least, there was no tension there at all.

I was shocked at how great this movie is. But I would love to know how they came up the with title. Everyone blames Star wars for the film being a box office flop. Who ever chose the ban be deserves most of it.

Isn't this a remake of The Wages of Fear?