After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
Direction
Boorman's fractured timeline and acid-washed LA
Acting
Marvin's terrifying stillness, a shark in human form
Cinematography
Philip Lathrop's hard-edge color noir, brutal and beautiful
Director
John Boorman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Boorman and Marvin threw out most of the script, keeping only the revenge structure. The studio hated the experimental result.
Walker never utters a complete sentence to anyone except his dead wife—his isolation is literally linguistic.
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