El salario del miedo

This is the second adaptation of the french movie and this time netflix gives it a spin. It's not a film that was needed to be made in any capacity but for what it's worth it was atleast enjoyable for the most part. So there's this oil refinery. It's pressure is mounting to dangerous levels and if it ends up exploding it would cause problems for a lot of people. A team are sent it to for some reason grab nitroglycerin from a compound so it can be driving into the raging fire of the refinery and blown in order to save everyone. Now this makes no sense atleast to me and it's very vague but atleast the cast seemed to be decent enough.

Do you remember that Demi Moore film version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER where they added sex, violence, and a happy ending? If you do remember that, this movie is pretty much the same thing. It's a remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's classic 1954 film about four desperate men transporting highly volatile nitroglycerine over rocky terrain to extinguish a South American oil drill fire. That film was intelligent, well-crafted, and featured some of the most suspenseful scenes in film history. This remake takes that masterpiece, dispenses with any subtext, and pours on muscular action in the vein of THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS franchise. As dumb as that sounds, it's entertaining enough. Also, I'll admit to having a soft spot for the ridiculous Demi Moore Hawthorn films (it may have my favorite John Barry score), but if you want an actually good remake of the Clouzot film, check out William Friedkin's 1977 version, THE SORCERER, which manages to equal Clouzot's original in both intelligence and nail-biting suspense.

New from Netflix, a film that is shot well, the graphics are good, but overall it is bad and here's why. From the very beginning, Murphy's law occurs around the main characters, everything bad that can happen to them will definitely happen, if at first it may seem interesting, but by the fifth case it can get boring.

The plot of the film lasts so long that we see the title of the film when we have already watched a third of the film. And the content of this plot is so empty that it does not affect the further course of events, we did not get to know the characters closely, and the plot did not advance at all.

The main plot revolves around two brothers who must heroically save the settlement from the explosion of a gas well. On the way to this goal they face all sorts of obstacles, from shootouts and chases to banal roadblocks.

The main characters are stupid and naive, just look at the scene where the explosives technician is hiding from the explosion behind a car stuffed with explosives. But the ending of the film can surpass even this...

In general, it's a pity to waste time - a waste product that has been digested many times.

I tried it because it is made by a director - Julien Leclercq - whom I have always followed and mostly liked the films and series - BRAQUEURS. But here, sorry, I could not make it. It is lousy, nearly laughable, a total waste of time. Julien Leclercq's worst film, so far. Where is the GIBRALTAR director? He seems to have lost all ambition. Actually this story lacks tragedy, it would have been gloomier, I would have liked it, because not every director is Clouzot or Friedkin...I can understand this. And from the first day I was informed of this "explosive" project, I was afraid. I felt like a beast inside of me growing up, spreading in all my body. A SALAIRE DE LA PEUR remake with Alban Lenoir!!! Oh My God !!!! And my terror was unfortunately plenty justified and confirmed. Run away from it. It is more dangerous for your movie loving tendancies than any nitroglycerin truck. But if you want an advice to appreciate this one, at least TRY to appreciate, please forget the two previous films: LE SALAIRE DE LA PEUR - the genuine one, starring Yves Montand and Charles Vanel, and THE SORCERER, starring Bruno Cremer and Roy Scheider. Then, and only then, maybe you'll may bear this one. But I must admit it is not boring. AT LEAST.

For almost anyone who studied french in high school in Quebec in the 80s one of the standard books was "La Dynamite" about driving a truck with unstable nitroglycerine across treacherous terrain and bumpy roads.

This is basically that but with guns and over acting.

Now Georges Arnaud wrote "Le Salaire de la peur" in 1950 so it's more likely that our "La Dynamite" was a copy of that, but it was amusing.

Beyond that, it's not a great film, mediocre at best, but it is mindless late night viewing. Maybe it was because the story was so familiar in general but everything about this movie was overly predictable.