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The Osterman Weekend
An outspoken television personality, John Tanner (Rutger Hauer) has an annual tradition of going away with three college buddies. John then is convinced by the CIA that his friends are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.
2 March 1951, Macon, Georgia, USA
30 May 1942, Vallejo, California, USA
24 July 1942, Beckley, West Virginia, USA
29 July 1948, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
4 November 1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
24 July 1935, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
24 February 1951, St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
2 November 1913, New York City, New York, USA
22 January 1940, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
21 February 1936, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
March 29, 2004
Despite some script contrivances, it finds Peckinpah high in the saddle again and full of the same old thunder and lightning.
June 19, 2001
Sam Peckinpah's final movie is stylish, has loads of nudity and other debauchery, and makes virtually no sense at all. Cheers!
March 31, 2010
A wild ride into Cold War paranoia and the dangers of technocracy.
August 31, 2004
Never been more current than it is now--and if it's imperfect, it's imperfect in exactly the right way.
January 01, 2000
It rattles along well enough as a thriler of the political paranoia variety.
May 20, 2003
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.
March 22, 2004
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.
August 30, 2006
Director Sam Peckinpah's final film is certainly not among his best, but it is interesting nonetheless.
January 01, 2000
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.
October 23, 2004
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?
August 11, 2011
Too bad this confusing, incoherent satirical espionage thriller turned out to be the swan song of Sam Peckinpah,who made so many good films (The Wild Bunch).