Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe,Fred Ward star as National guardsmen who find themselves hunted in the backwoods bayous, where Cajuns are hunting them, since one of the guardsmen stole their canoes and shot blanks at them, of course this leads to a suspenseful and viscous finale where the guardsmen armed with only a few bullets don't put up much of a fight against the Cajuns who know the land and have a seemingly never ending supply of bullets in this intense thriller. If there's only one minor flaw it's that we learn nothing about the Cajun villains who wipe out the guardsmen one by one, aside from that this becomes a strong outing and perfect symbolism for the Vietnam war. The ending is especially well done and the sense of paranoia and mean spirited violence punctuated by long stretches of talk only add to the overall effect of the downbeat story. This is the type of movie that emotionally drains you.
4.5/5 Matt Bronson
4.5/5 Matt Bronson