Fresh
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.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Sorcerer
Four men...outlaws thrown together by fate...share a fantastic adventure and risk the only thing they have left to lose.
1977 · 2h 2m · PG
Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
William Friedkin
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- William Friedkin Director
- Roy Scheider as Jackie Scanlon / "Juan Dominguez"
- Bruno Cremer as Victor Manzon / "Serrano"
- Francisco Rabal as Nilo
- Amidou as Kassem / "Martinez"
- Ramon Bieri as Corlette
- Peter Capell as Lartigue
- Karl John as "Marquez"
- Friedrich von Ledebur as "Carlos" (as Fredrick Ledebur)
- Chico Martínez as Bobby Del Rios
- Joe Spinell as Spider
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Fresh
First and foremost a lavish entertainment, no matter its brief examination of oil politics.
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice
Rotten
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.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Rotten
William Friedkin's Sorcerer is a painstaking, admirable, but mostly distant and uninvolving suspenser based on the French classic The Wages of Fear.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
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.
Time Out
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