Someone should have convinced director Sam Peckinpah that some editors can be a good thing for a film. THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND could have used one. It's so malformed, it's nearly incomprehensible. Peckinpah's last film is fast paced, but extremely muddled.
Rutger Hauer plays a talk show host who realizes his friends are all "enemies of the state" and he's roped into to eliminating them by shadowy government operative John Hurt. Burt Lancaster is in there somewhere too, but it's not clear who he is or what he's up to. As the friends, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper and Chris Sarandon are fine but the film doesn't spend a second developing these characters. Hauer is surprisingly good in a rare non-villain role and Meg Foster and her creepy eyes are in it too!
Rutger Hauer plays a talk show host who realizes his friends are all "enemies of the state" and he's roped into to eliminating them by shadowy government operative John Hurt. Burt Lancaster is in there somewhere too, but it's not clear who he is or what he's up to. As the friends, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper and Chris Sarandon are fine but the film doesn't spend a second developing these characters. Hauer is surprisingly good in a rare non-villain role and Meg Foster and her creepy eyes are in it too!