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Deliverance, John Boorman's best film yet doesn't have anything new to say (thank God) about the lack of morality in brute nature. Still, its pro-civilization sentiments are refreshing, its recreation of a moral vacuum in Georgia backlands terrifying, and its pure adventure sequences on the Cahulawassee. River among the best action filmed. John Voight turns in a fine star performance as a symp turned strongman...
DELIVERANCE. A dazzling visual tour de force by John Boorman about four Georgia businessmen struggling to survive a nightmarish voyage into the backwoods...
...exciting even to think what film makers like John Boorman (Deliverance) and Don Siegel (Dirty Harry) might have done with this material. Alas, this movie was directed by Ronald Neame (Scrooge) who saw his role as that of a traffic cop, his main concern to get his actors where they were supposed to go without bumping into each other too often...
...Last, John Boorman directed this parable about revolution, and if he always cares about filmmaking, it's doubtful he cares much about this topic, Marcello Mastroianni stars as the nobleman whose royal seat is a townhouse in a neighborhood which is composed, except for his own staff, of impoverished blacks. Mr. Deeds Goes to the Barricades, of course, and he ends up assaulting his own supporters in defense of--that's right--The Community. Too abstract and stylized to make much sense...
Still, Deliverance would not have worked as the Stepped-down film which Boorman fashioned were it not for the performance of Jon Voight as Ed. is the film's rock of common sense: his reactions give the film a base on which its audience can stand. Voight's eyes and stance manage to express naivite, moral and physical shock, the hard intent of a man who must reach a pinpointed goal, and the penance of a killer reawakened to humanity. Without him, the swagger of an uncontrolled Burt Reynolds as the uncontrollable Lewis, and the inordinate weakness in Ronny...