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Just another piece of Hollywood crap with decent storyline but the overuse of cheap computer generated graphics absolutely ruined it. Fake smoke, fake fire, it's all so obvious. It's kinda like playing a video game. The graphics are not natural, and the constant fake smoke & fire looks as fake as a video game. Not to mention it seems to go on forever. The wasteland vehicles are cool but the cheap special effects makes it seem as if it's a joke. Everything in the film seemed fake. How could this garbage get a 7+ out of 10? Lots of phoney reviews from the background cast I assume. Garbage. Hollywood sucks.

Here I am watching Sorcerer for probably the 25 time and noticed something. I have a 4K version of the film so the detail is pretty good. I've read tons of reviews that have said the location of the filming was a "name less" South American country.... in fact, it was filmed far from South America. The Dominican Republic.

In the beginning part of the film, the guy with the sunglasses and hat (no clue what his name is). Anyway, he arrives on that first flight into town and during "customs" (a filthy old man with a fly swatter) he said his passport was in the luggage inside the plane. He then said he was thirsty and bribing "customs" with a 50 peso bill. For maybe half-a-sec you can read clearly "Dominican Republic" on the bill. The only other scenario would mean they brought Dominican Republic money to South America which makes no sense whatsoever.

Anyway, thought someone might find that interesting!

This is a dark eerie film COULD have been fantastic! In a film setting like this, the setting itself is so 'intrusive' that it's basically becomes part of the film. They knew the location was key. And to their credit found a pretty great place to shoot. That's when they got lazy. You could have filmed any story you wanted. Why this crap story? But because the atmosphere was so cool and unique, it might attain a score of 5/10 based on the location itself. I wish more directors would film in such unique places.

The story was bland and uninteresting... Not one of the characters in the entire film are likable.... Every scene has long drawn out camera wide shots just to increase film run time. It's basically a 25 minute movie. Add the 'fill' then PUFF! Just like pop corn, corn looks small until you add hot air.