A not-so-comfortable journey (Southern Comfort, 1981, rewatch)
Southern Comfort, 1981, directed by Walter Hill, streamed on Prime Video, 3 stars. Nine guys in a Louisiana National Guard unit get lost in the swampland during a training exercise and manage to piss off a group of local hunters. Deadly hijinks ensue. This one was fine. The scenery was great. A sense of danger was constant throughout as this group tried desperately to find their way to safety. I think the problem was that most of the characters we were supposed to care about weren't very likable. Only the two leads -- Keith Carradine and Powers Boothe -- had any kind of charisma. And it wasn't until the last 20 minutes of the film that we were able to focus on them. I did really like that third act. Everything memorable about this movie happened near the end. Everything leading up to that wasn't bad, it just wasn't very interesting or exciting. -------------------- Stream at Prime Video (I am an Amazon affiliate, and your clicks help support this blog)