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- 1981
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 46 m
- 1981
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 46 m
Summary During a routine exercise, a team of National Guards are threatened by angry and violent locals.
Directed By: Walter Hill
Written By: Michael Kane, David Giler, Walter Hill
- 1981
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 46 m
- 1981
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 46 m
Southern Comfort
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6.4
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Summary During a routine exercise, a team of National Guards are threatened by angry and violent locals.
Directed By: Walter Hill
Written By: Michael Kane, David Giler, Walter Hill
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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60% Positive
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40% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
63
60% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
40% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
It's an allegory about the Vietnam war, a study of American character and a national propensity for violence. Southern Comfort is a masterpiece.
Beyond its genre roots and its deeper meanings, Southern Comfort is a well-honed study of characters and setting.
Southern Comfort is a film of drum-tight professionalism. It is also, unfortunately, so committed to its allegorical vision that it never really comes alive as a story about people.
Pic is most exciting as a visual experience, as Walter Hill once again proves himself a consummate filmmaker with a great talent for mood, composition and action choreography.
Walter Hill has a dazzling competence as an action director; he uses the locale for its paranoia-inducing strangeness (it suggests Vietnam), and he uses the men to demonstrate what he thinks it takes to survive. Its limitation is that there's nothing underneath the characters' macho masks.
The specifics of Hill's movie - and despite its straining for universality, it is all specifics - come approximately a decade too late; in the wake of Who'll Stop the Rain and Apocalypse Now (and even that great B-movie anti-war movie, The Big Red One), it sinks like an insignificant stone. [24 Oct 1981]
Though the film was photographed on what appear to have been extremely difficult locations in Louisiana and Texas, it never once convinces you that it's anything but pretentious moviemaking.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 User Ratings
6.4
56% Positive
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