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Southern Comfort [1981]
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Dreadful
Review date: 2008-10-23 Rating: 2 out of 10
This is probably one of the worst films I've ever seen and I've watched Gigli. The script is rubbish and the acting is more wooden than the woods is which the characters roam...I couldn't wait for them to die and it be over.
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Tense and atmospheric
Review date: 2008-09-11 Rating: 8 out of 10
A film that was clearly inspired by Deliverance, but that quite easily merits viewing in its own right. If you replace adventurers with National Guardsmen you do have almost the same film. However don't let that put you off because this is very well done and probably has more of a brooding sense of menace to it than Deliverance does. The cast are are all good and director Walter Hill perhaps peaked with this film.
The story is slight, but effective, some National Guardsmen upset the locals whilst out on an exercise. The locals aren't happy and seek to punish the soldiers in various horrible ways. When you see this unfold you will begin to see that maybe this film was an influence on the first Rambo film and even perhaps Predator.
Again in another parallel to Deliverance this has a marvellous soundtrack, written and performed by Ry Cooder. Its mostly played on guitar, bottle-neck style, and its adds another dimension to the film.
So overall a tense, highly entertaining film that holds up to repeated viewings.
Southern Comfort
Review date: 2008-09-06 Rating: 8 out of 10
Nearly 30yrs on, this film holds its own for suspense. Although somewhat laboured acting from Powers Boothe on occasion, the cast do well to portray the divide between the backwater Frenchies and the southern Boys! Shadows of "Deliverence" are bound to arise, but under the directorship of Walter Hill, you are drawn into the story willing vengence for the "boys"...Very watchable (more than once or twice)and worth the money to have this one in your collection.
Deliverance with Guns
Review date: 2008-07-05 Rating: 10 out of 10
Although it's not as good as Deliverance, Walter Hill's Southern Comfort gives us more action and more suspense by taking us right into the heart of the Louisiana village where folk are hostile to interlopers. Army reservists on a training excercise suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives when their rifle fire alerts the locals.
The humid atmosphere of red-neck swampland inhabited by murderous redneck lunatics adds to the film's gripping intensity, and you keep watching to see if any of the soldiers make it out of there alive. There are many characters in this movie and quite a few get bumped off by the rednecks through a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Keith Carradine
Powers Boothe
Fred Ward
Creators:
Keith Carradine (Primary Contributor)
Powers Boothe (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Optimum Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
EAN: 5060034571735
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Anamorphic, PAL,
Release date: 2007-01-29
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 106 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1981
Language: English (Original Language)