Loraine
6Feb12
i didn't realize they were speaking spanish either until a while after...
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Julio Ernesto Franco
11Jan12
for a spanish speaking viewer, the first half of the film is almost unbearable. the line delivery by the french and italian actors portraying latinos is a huge distraction. i watched this with a friend from mexico and she didn't even realize they were speaking spanish. that being said, the second half of the film was very suspenseful and well executed.
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TFCHooligan69
17Oct11
I saw this tonight for the first time and it blew me away. Amazing when viewed in a cinema setting.
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Subterranean Cinema
20Jun11
I believe that "Sorcerer" was better than "Wages of Fear" (and most other films), and I was almost alone in the 70s in thinking that, mainly because I was one of the very few people who actually saw "Sorcerer" in 1977 (twice in a row on opening night at the age of 14 to a mostly empty theatre), and now there are quite a few people who agree with me that its a cult classic, at the very least. Wages is great too.
Erik Solin
9May11
I wasn't all that blown away nor up by this film as I had expected. Not that I didn't enjoy it but it was a little predictable and I think I was upset by the racistic remarks at the beginning of the film. All in all very entertaining and tense a film. The scene at the pond of oil was wonderful!
tsienni
1Apr11
Without delving into the philosophical exegesis of this film, I have to say, from a purely visual style point of view, I do not find the first act slow, on the contrary, I actually enjoyed the first 40 minutes, before the journey of actions even got started. The rest is entertaining but predictable.
Øyvind Rype
30Nov10
One of the most poorly executed endings I've ever seen. I kept on laughing for a couple of minutes in pure disbelief, it was so tacky and stupid. Overall though, a very good movie.
Zachary George Najarian-Najafi
2Oct10
This is such a brutal, depressing, nihilistic, and MANLY movie. Perhaps a bit too much so, and too long in places as well. But the suspense is excruciating, words can't even describe. And the atmosphere... you can feel the sweat on your back and smell the oil in the air!
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guamyankee
2Sep10
The best scenes of the movie occur after the drivers start moving the nitroglycerin in trucks. You know its a movie, you know these are actors, but you forget. Watching this on my laptop, I literally pushed the computer away at places, not wanting to be too close if there was an explosion. This movie could have been perfect with a little more time in the editing room, but I still enjoyed the ulcer that it gave me.
rolandogilead
19Jan10
Wow...i enjoyed it. And i realize that in the french cinema of the '50s men didn't had a choice and all the endings are much the same. The death or the end of the road dor the protagonist.
Jay Olie Espy
8Jan10
I showed Wages of Fear to my father-in-law thinking he's never seen it. It turned out that he had when he was about 5 or 6 in Mexico City. The first few images jogged this forgotten memory. I wanted to prod him about how people reacted to the film, but then again, he was only 5 or 6!
Giovanni Colantonio
3Jul09
Though it takes quite a while to pick up, the film builds up to one of the most tense experiences ever filmed. Every moment, I was expecting the worst for the situations. I was truly on the edge of my seat, waiting to see how these characters could overcome such massive and seemingly impossible odds.
thisguyoverhere
26Jan09
Brilliantly tragic performances, wonderful storytelling, and searing intensity. It plays like a text book on creating suspense. Really can't wait to see how this one looks on Criterion Bluray.
