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01/26/06
The Osterman Weekend (1983)
38 %
Reviews Counted: 13 Fresh: 5 Rotten:8 Average Rating: 5.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Synopsis: Once a year, a reporter invites some dear friends over for a fun-filled weekend. Shortly before this year's shindig however, the CIA convinces the journalist that some of these buddies are also Russian operatives; the agency even outfits his home with surveillance equipment. The guests... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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05/24/03
Top Critic
It rattles along well enough as a thriler of the political paranoia variety.
01/01/00
Top Critic
Director Sam Peckinpah's final film is certainly not among his best, but it is interesting nonetheless.
08/30/06
Top Critic
I don't demand that all movies make sense. I sometimes enjoy movies that make no sense whatsoever, if that's their intention. But a thriller is supposed to hold together in some sort of logical way, isn't it?
10/23/04
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Never been more current than it is now--and if it's imperfect, it's imperfect in exactly the right way.
08/31/04
Despite some script contrivances, it finds Peckinpah high in the saddle again and full of the same old thunder and lightning.
03/29/04
A muddled thriller ... Peckinpah seems more interested in shooting laughable action sequences and exposing the bare breasts of his actresses than in relating a coherent story.
03/22/04
Some individual sequences -- including a car chase early in the film - have the lunatic humor that might have made the rest of the film bearable, though probably nothing would justify the film's final blood bath.
05/20/03
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Sam Peckinpah's final movie is stylish, has loads of nudity and other debauchery, and makes virtually no sense at all. Cheers!
06/19/01
The structure is a mess (the film was recut against Peckinpah's wishes), which ultimately makes it difficult to tell whether its oddly compelling qualities are the result of a coherent artistic strategy or the cynical carelessness of a director sidelined.
01/01/00
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