September 13, 2007
A flawed classic.
Burt Lancaster, Cassie Yates, Chris Sarandon
Sam Peckinpah's final film has a lot to recommend it, including a complicated story derived from a Robert Ludlum novel but laced with Peckinpah's hard questions about loyalty and the balance between c...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 23, 2004
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April 12, 2007Ludlum is so good at writing these. I can well imagine that this film will be remade at some stage (if it hasn't been already but I haven't heard of a remake) in places somewhat confusing in the film but it all reels together well in the end.
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January 14, 2007How much do you know about your friends? A secret agent uses a reporters curiosity against him in an attempt to uncover a spy among his friends. Makes you think about human nature and the things you don't know about the people closest to you.
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August 4, 2009Though it makes no sense, Peckinpah totally phones it in and Craig T. Nelson turns into Lou Costello at the end--I can't say I hated it. Acting is good & the action is sufficient. Insert plot here.
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April 19, 2009Sort of interesting as an espionage thriller from the 80's, but the muddled plotting loses the viewer pretty easily.
Plus there's that ridiculous mustache on Craig T. Nelson that should get its own billing, he looks like he should be tying a woman to railroad tracks in a black a...( read more) -
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October 5, 2008CIA convinces a guy to allow them to spy on his friends during a weekend get together.
I found this movie rather messy in it's construction and while it had some scenes that worked; the movie felt like something that was tampered with.
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August 4, 2008The Osterman Weekend was legendary director Sam Peckinpah's last film; and sadly it shows. It's messy and underwhelming, and most unfortunate of all, boring; with none of the action-fireworks or visceral-punch of his classic films: The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs or The Getaway.
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October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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