Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4771 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-01-29
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 106 minutes

Synopsis
A group of National Guardsmen are performing routine training exercises in the boggy swamplands of the Louisiana bayou. They are all fairly new to the game and without live ammunition, but in their carelessness and cockiness they offend some of the locals by firing blanks at them. The angry Cajuns fight back for their turf and pride in a conflict that escalates to terrifying guerilla warfare and serves as an allegory of America's involvement in the Vietnam War.

Customer Reviews

Deliverance with Guns
Although it's not as good as Deliverance, Walter Hill's Southern Comfort gives us more action and more suspense by taking us right into the heart of the Louisiana village where folk are hostile to interlopers. Army reservists on a training excercise suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives when their rifle fire alerts the locals.

The humid atmosphere of red-neck swampland inhabited by murderous redneck lunatics adds to the film's gripping intensity, and you keep watching to see if any of the soldiers make it out of there alive. There are many characters in this movie and quite a few get bumped off by the rednecks through a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Southern Comfort
Nearly 30yrs on, this film holds its own for suspense. Although somewhat laboured acting from Powers Boothe on occasion, the cast do well to portray the divide between the backwater Frenchies and the southern Boys! Shadows of "Deliverence" are bound to arise, but under the directorship of Walter Hill, you are drawn into the story willing vengence for the "boys"...Very watchable (more than once or twice)and worth the money to have this one in your collection.

Tense and atmospheric
A film that was clearly inspired by Deliverance, but that quite easily merits viewing in its own right. If you replace adventurers with National Guardsmen you do have almost the same film. However don't let that put you off because this is very well done and probably has more of a brooding sense of menace to it than Deliverance does. The cast are are all good and director Walter Hill perhaps peaked with this film.

The story is slight, but effective, some National Guardsmen upset the locals whilst out on an exercise. The locals aren't happy and seek to punish the soldiers in various horrible ways. When you see this unfold you will begin to see that maybe this film was an influence on the first Rambo film and even perhaps Predator.

Again in another parallel to Deliverance this has a marvellous soundtrack, written and performed by Ry Cooder. Its mostly played on guitar, bottle-neck style, and its adds another dimension to the film.

So overall a tense, highly entertaining film that holds up to repeated viewings.