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.
24 July 1935, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
21 February 1936, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
22 January 1940, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
8 April 1946, Coronado, California, USA
10 May 1948, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
4 November 1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
17 November 1961, Kolding, Denmark
21 February 1925, Fresno, California, USA
24 February 1951, St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
12 May 1924, Richmond, Virginia, USA
23 January 1944, Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
4 April 1944, Spokane, Washington, USA
2 March 1951, Macon, Georgia, USA
29 July 1948, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
4 March 1934, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
5 June 1922, Seattle, Washington, USA
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.
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.
August 30, 2006
Director Sam Peckinpah's final film is certainly not among his best, but it is interesting nonetheless.
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!
August 31, 2004
Never been more current than it is now--and if it's imperfect, it's imperfect in exactly the right way.
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?
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.
March 29, 2004
Despite some script contrivances, it finds Peckinpah high in the saddle again and full of the same old thunder and lightning.
March 31, 2010
A wild ride into Cold War paranoia and the dangers of technocracy.
January 01, 2000
It rattles along well enough as a thriler of the political paranoia variety.
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).
