I can't even begin to guess what the director John Boorman had to deal with filming in the Amazon Jungle. The film is a mix of many different films, The Searchers, Deliverance, some sort of ecological statement and finally a family drama. The film ends up leading to a scene cribbed from the ending of another film Rolling Thunder.
Could a talented filmmaker like John Boorman pull it off? Many critics thought so although a few found it a ponderous mess.
I thought the film was very good. Say what you want about John Boorman but the guy always strives to tell a story that certainly isn't in any sense conventional. At times this got him in trouble, witness Zardoz and Exorcist II: The Heretic.
The film was written by Boorman's long time associate Rospo Pallenberg and runs 114 minutes.
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