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Walker [DVD] [1987]

DVD ~ Ed Harris

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Actors: Ed Harris, Richard Masur, Ren� Assa, Rene Auberjonois, Keith Szarabajka
Directors: Alex Cox
Writers: Rudy Wurlitzer
Producers: Angel Flores Marini, Carlos �lvarez, Debbie Diaz, Edward R. Pressman, Lorenzo O'Brien
Format: PAL
Language English
Subtitles: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Turkish, Dutch, Arabic, Hebrew
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: 18
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
DVD Release Date: 7 Jul 2003
Run Time: 93 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00008WJ6F
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 19,730 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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This offbeat historical drama is another in a line of hard-to-categorize films from cult director Alex Cox. Ed Harris stars as William Walker, an idealistic doctor, lawyer, and journalist who, at age 32, led a bloody revolution and installed himself as president of Nicaragua under orders from Cornelius Vanderbilt (Peter Boyle). Harris' performance is terrific, the violence is effective and well-used, and the film conveys an uncompromising political viewpoint without ever lapsing into self-righteousness.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie., 6 Mar 2004

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This is the DVD edition of Walker, a historical piece and true story as directed by Alex Cox who is a legend for his punk-rock masterpiece Repo-Man. The short of it is that if you like your history by the book you probably won't like this, but if you keep an open mind you might just see past that and love this movie for it's humor and the underlying message. Although sometimes a bit slowpaced overall it's just an original and funny movie.
I must also correct the synopsis, since this movie takes place in the 19th century Walker wasn't executed in 1957 but 1857...
I would also reccomend seeing Repo Man to anyone who likes this movie, though that dosen't necessarily go the other way around.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not your everyday history lesson..., 10 Nov 2005

By	Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Best remembered (if at all) as the film that comprehensively destroyed Alex Cox's mainstream career, it's hard to see what caused such vitriolic offense at the time. Cox and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer's take on the unbalanced self-deceiving `idealist' mercenary William Walker's intervention in Nicaragua to protect Cornelius Vanderbilt's financial interests there, setting off a century of disastrous American interference, is not particularly subtle, but then William Walker wasn't exactly a subtle man ("Clearly this is no ordinary a**hole," judges one of the more astute locals). With a visual style clearly inspired by spaghetti westerns and Sam Peckinpah, a contradictory narration - what you hear isn't what you see, with Walker's own third person narration frequently completely at odds with the farcical reality - and a slew of critic infuriating anachronisms, it was received with a mixture of outrage and contempt that makes the critical reception of Domino look like a triumph of Schindler's List proportions.

It's not a great movie, but it's certainly not the disaster its been painted, and even the at first jarring anachronisms are fun - Walker gets the cover of both Time and Newsweek, interviewers use tape recorders while Vanderbilt has a computer displaying stock market prices in his office - but perhaps should have been introduced earlier: however, there's no doubting the pertinence of the final arrival of trigger-happy helicopter gunships to evacuate the US citizens. Indeed, the film seems a more pertinent commentary on American foreign policy now than it did in 1987. Harris is on fine self-righteous form as the `short idealist,' short on ideals but big on a sense of divine purpose even though he has no idea what that purpose actually is from one moment to the next. With a concise running time and a great Joe Strummer score, it's an ambitious and often entertaining oddity. Just don't go in expecting a history lesson or a straight biography.

Sadly, there are no extras at all on the widescreen PAL Region 2 disc, but Criterion have certainly put together an impressive package of new extras for a film that was for so long held in such unwarranted disdain for their excellent Region 1 NTSC disc, including an excellent audio commentary by Alex Cox and Rudy Wurlitzer, documentary Dispatches From Nicaragua, audio essay by Linda Sandoval, stills galleries and detailed booklet - though be warned that the theatrical trailer and the featurette of Cox ruefully going through the film's savage reviews are both well hidden. It's not perfect by any means, but there's too much that's interesting about the film to dismiss it entirely out of hand.

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