Jon Voight does probably the hardest thing of all in this film and that is making his transformation from family man to warrior very believable. With Jon Voight(Midnight Cowboy, Enemy of the State) and Burt Reynolds(Boogie Nights, Striptease) leading the great cast. So as the movie goes into full horror and suspense I really cared about all four men and what would happen to them. But what really distinguishes this film, about four business men who get more than they bargained for on a canoe trip, is that director John Boorman(Excalibur) breaks all the characters away from plain caricatures or stereotypes. When you think that the kid has a small banjo, which he could of probably made by hand, compared to Drew's nice expensive guitar, you really figure out just how out of their territory the four men are.Īs the plot goes it's very believable and never stretches past its limits. As I watched Drew(Ronny Cox,Robocop)go head to head with a seemingly retarted young boy it really shows how edgy this movies can get. In that scene the brutality and edge of this film is truly visible. When I started watching this movie nothing really seemed unusual until I got to the "Dueling Banjos" scene. Maybe by today's blood and bullets standards it doesn't seem so edgy, but if you think that this was 1972 and that the movie has a truly sinister core then it makes you think differently. After having seen Deliverance, movies like Pulp Fiction don't seem so extreme.
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