"A great film that hardly anyone knows about"
Indeed. I was pleased with handsome 7.7 rating here on IMDb, but was surprised that it only had about 8000 votes!
The movie's amazing, it's thrilling sequences deserves to be seen by more people.
Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down and a Wagging Finger of Shame

I thought this was an excellent movie, very entertaining. I don't really understand all the criticism.If you want to be entertained by a film, you should be able to suspend belief at times and just have fun with the movie. This movie wasn't that far fetched. You have four desperate men who will do about anything to better their situations. They are living in some third world jerk water country where all the equipment is old and crappy. I thought Roy Scheider gave an outstanding performance. To me, this movie is a kind of sleeper. A great film that hardly anyone knows about.

Bravo. Such insightful and incisive Film criticism ! Please review some Tarkovsky or Bergman next !!

Yeah, okay, boy. Though your complaint is wrong and does not hide your ignorance at all, no, not even a little.
So tell me: When is your next third-rate rehash coming out? I'm dying to see it fall flat like so many of your feeble dreck vehicles nearly always do. Yeah, I could really, really use yet another good laugh at your abject flunks, waha!
Besides, this film isn't even made for kids anyway! So what have you got to say!? Get back to the
Transformer
boards! Or would you be a whiny, miserable bitch there too?

second half is undeniably boring and the premise is just plain silly. C'mon. The guy who dips his hand into the crate has to tip toe out of the hut to flick it off his fingers and even then it goes off. But you can drive a battered old truck several hundred miles over jungle tracks and various dilapidated bridges??
If this was genre'd as a fantasy flick then my disbelief who only be marginally less.

but this was almost unbearably boring
Not as boring as your trolling, and your endless second-rate rehashes of everything better than you, you clueless and empty-headed little diseased ADD-afflicted beep.
I honestly was rooting for the damn trucks to just blow up so the stupid movie could be over, and the characters could die like the dumbasses they were
You don't wanna know, exactly, what I think and feel about you and your kind and your parents.
They were asking to die the whole time, i wish they could've just got on with it
Cut yourself all over again, you little freak.
ploink!
No more of you, trolling n00blet! Now please tell your mother (if she's there, though I doubt that) to abort you. Then kick her in the ass for spawning an ugly troll like you.

I mean i wasn't around when this came out
Yeah, we knew that as soon as reading your title.
but i like to think i have an open mind
And that is the
only
"reason" you think that, I'm quite sure.

I don't know how the hell this movie has a 7+ score.
Yeah, you wouldn't. On the other hand, what the beep do you know?

This movie was boring and plain stupid.
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How sad.
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Watched it last night expecting it to be really good based on the IMDB score and plot outline, but it was excruciating. Friedkin is totally overrated and rates his own movies on Amazon. How sad.

Sure, it's over rated like most things but stupid is a little harsh. I'd say the lack of character devlopment was the main draw back. Not sure why anyone would agree to do a job like this and maybe knowing more about the guys involved would have helped.

lol guess i have to watch it to see what the fuss is all about LOL
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You're an idiot.

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It's 2013 now, I'm hoping that the OP hasn't reproduced.
http://us.imdb.com/board/22339870/

''They call this entertainment!?!'', synapse256 said. Who call that entertainment synapse256!?!
It's not ''Bad Boys''! Why would you watch this movie to enetrtain yourself?!
P.S. Watch ''The Wages of Fear''. Maybe that will satisfy you. Dig deeper in the times when you wasn't around. Or you can always can back to ''High School Musical 2''.

Other way around for me - boring start then picks ups
Strangely , this film reminds me of The Exorcist -where Friedkin could really do with a Editor who knew how to use a pair of scissors.Frequently.
Hey Witchdoctor, give us the magic words.
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I was kind of disappointed by this
I agree the start was very good but then I got so damn Boring
When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth

Best movie I have seen in a loong time!
Could not look away not for a sec. Thet don't make em like this anymore.
Have u ever felt the fighting presence of another?

The process of making nitro is extremely dangerous (much more than transporting it) and requires special equipment to keep the reaction from "running away". Poisonous fumes are released throughout the process. So you can't simply make the nitro by mixing a few compounds together when you need it. Or you can try, and blow your butt into the next state.

So is your post. And so are you, I suspect.

by the way genius, i looked you up on google and if you're using your real name you haven't written anything of note, and if i'm wrong please give me titles. i've looked over your post blog and i realize you don't even really care about movies, you're a politics junkie, so i'm sorry i wasted my time on you.

you're right, i heard the term eavesdropping on harlan ellison. you're pathetic and your attempt at proving your erudition worthless. include your address in the next response.