
Four seedy criminal outcasts risk their lives in pursuit of redemption, both legal and moral, by driving unreliable trucks stocked with nitroglycerine through dangerous landscape to cap an oil well fire in a Central American banana republic. Featuring a trance-like score by Tangerine Dream and a visceral, astonishing performance by Roy Scheider, Friedkin's reinterpretation of Clouzot’s 1953 masterpiece is perhaps the best remake of all time and is among Friedkin’s most daring works. Three sequences alone –a chaotic car crash in Boston, the unloading of charred bodies in a Central American village, and the explosives laden trucks crossing a rickety storm-blown bridge – render Sorcerer a classic and retain their power to make audiences gasp. Released the same year as Star Wars, Friedkin's audacious masterpiece represents the braver road abandoned by the studio system.
巴解炸弹客、巴黎破落银行家、新泽西银行劫匪、摩萨德杀手,逃亡南美雨林,为钱舍命运输两车炸药,一路千惊万险……风格粗粝冷硬。卡车过吊桥一段全片最震撼;上一秒回忆起老婆送的金表、下一秒爆炸;拿到支票后的落寞舞蹈。
还是比《恐惧的代价》要弱,铺垫文戏虽精简但有逻辑断线,后面的“运输危险品驾驶操作实况”的难关设置也大体相似,但少了原版的狠心倾轧和乐极生悲;不过也有自己的独特:载入影史的暴风雨中摇摇欲坠的吊桥戏,四位摊上事的陌生人的临时组局比老版的因穷出手和互相认识更有张力,政治性描写也更显著。
疯狂刺激肾上腺素攀升的一枚利器。屈指可数的温情时刻都在预告着人物马上要迎来的死亡。
very underrated movie. Friedkin's best in my opinion.
【B】作为翻拍作,弗莱德金在部分类型桥段的发挥还是做到了翻拍作应有的水准。卡车过吊桥的戏是现实恐惧与心理惊悚共振的极致,真正意义上做到了“实拍即伟大”,为了这点完全可以忽视硝酸甘油摇晃易爆的逻辑bug,极端调性的好莱坞奇观要比这更加珍贵。但在情节编排上真是完全输给了克鲁佐,开场四条故事线以极度无趣的方式按序排列,告诉我们写实基调可以轻易被反转成死板观感。粗粝冷峻的影像风格在纯粹的「运动」中充当正确的审美导向,但在临近末尾角色崩溃的段落中又被替换成花里胡哨的浮夸蒙太奇,精神状态的视觉呈现不应这般臃肿,只有里程表上宣告终点的数字是最为精炼的描述(后来被诺兰在《敦刻尔克》里给学了去)。结尾无疑是政治的,角色的毁灭不再由乐极生悲引发,而是被自身业障寻觅,动乱时代才是真正的桌下炸弹。