Runtime: 121 minutes
Directed by: William
Friedkin
Starring: Roy Scheider,
Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri
From: Universal/Paramount
Maybe the general story just isn't for me.
A few weeks ago I viewed The Wages of Fear and a 1958 B movie loosely based on that story called Violent Road. The latter came off as generic but the former had some extremely intense scenes. Unfortunately, it also was too long, was generally unpleasant and all the people we followed were various degrees of A-hole. I was hoping this cult classic wouldn't be like that, but regrettably it was.
I mean, this time our protagonists are:
*An assassin
*A Palestinian who is the only one of his militant pals who escapes after setting off a bomb in Jerusalem
*A stock broker who committed fraud and flees rather than faces punishment
*The driver for an Irish mob who... rob a church, kill a priest, then an accident happens where driver is the only one alive, AND due to contrivances the Mafia is also after him.
And I am supposed to give a damn about these louts? I certainly don't. The rest is the same as the original: they live in a poor town located in a third world country dominated by a corrupt oil company, they have to transport nitroglycerin over rough terrain, they bicker with each other, etc. Like with the original, not even some great moments could make this a pleasant experience for me. At least the Tangerine Dream score was pretty awesome.
A few weeks ago I viewed The Wages of Fear and a 1958 B movie loosely based on that story called Violent Road. The latter came off as generic but the former had some extremely intense scenes. Unfortunately, it also was too long, was generally unpleasant and all the people we followed were various degrees of A-hole. I was hoping this cult classic wouldn't be like that, but regrettably it was.
I mean, this time our protagonists are:
*An assassin
*A Palestinian who is the only one of his militant pals who escapes after setting off a bomb in Jerusalem
*A stock broker who committed fraud and flees rather than faces punishment
*The driver for an Irish mob who... rob a church, kill a priest, then an accident happens where driver is the only one alive, AND due to contrivances the Mafia is also after him.
And I am supposed to give a damn about these louts? I certainly don't. The rest is the same as the original: they live in a poor town located in a third world country dominated by a corrupt oil company, they have to transport nitroglycerin over rough terrain, they bicker with each other, etc. Like with the original, not even some great moments could make this a pleasant experience for me. At least the Tangerine Dream score was pretty awesome.
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