Osterman Weekend 2 Full Movie 1080p

I'll get what most everyone knows out of the way first: The Osterman Weekend isn't a particularly good movie and it's especially not good as a Sam Peckinpah film. It's certainly better than his previous effort, the abysmal Convoy. Bad buzz over that one kept Peckinpah away from directing for five years. The Osterman Weekend is basically a low-budget independent but the physical limitations aren't the problem. Robert Ludlum's story idea just isn't very promising and ace screenwriter Alan Sharp's screenplay has none of the genius of his earlier Ulzana's Raid and Night Moves, both superior pictures. A spy enlists a newsman in a bizarre plan, and it isn't very surprising when plot developments reveal a full half-hour's exposition to be an elaborate hoax. The idea of surveillance cameras keeping a big-brotherly eye on a houseful of spies was a big bore in 1983, along with the weak message that television brain-washes the masses. The theme of high-level government conspiracies intruding on our lives is talked about but not elaborated. The story is the sort of pretext that in a new film would be used to launch two hours of exploitative action. The Osterman Weekend wants to be serious than that.

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For a movie that's supposedly technically sophisticated, The Osterman Weekend completely misuses the surveillance video idea. The camera views are always optimized, interestingly composed and too tight to be real security or snoop cameras. Worse, videotaped events recovered from surveillance cameras often are edited, especially the murder of Lawrence Fassett's wife. It's not long before the cameras are just being used to peep at various couples making love, and there's no difference between that "coverage" and Peckinpah's earlier cheap hot-tub and bedroom scenes. It doesn't make sense that John Tanner would make love when he knows full well that Fassett is probably watching - and Ali Tanner saw the boxes and boxes of video equipment being wheeled into her house. Isn't she wondering where it's all set up?

CIA director Maxwell Danforth (Burt Lancaster) does a deal with the Soviets and let them kill agent Laurence Fassett (John Hurt)'s wife. Fassett is unaware of the deal and is tracking down Soviet agent Omega. He tells TV personality John Tanner (Rutger Hauer) that his friends are all working for Omega. Tanner and his friends are gathering for the weekend. Fassett sets his home up with surveillance. Tanner tries to send his wife Ali (Meg Foster) and son away but they are almost kidnapped. Tanner's friends include his TV producer Bernard Osterman (Craig T. Nelson), plastic surgeon Richard Tremayne (Dennis Hopper) and his coke-snorting wife Virginia (Helen Shaver), and stock trader Joseph Cardone (Chris Sarandon) and wife Betty (Cassie Yates).This story is a mess and the execution doesn't solve anything. Director Sam Peckinpah's last feature film is full questionable things. It's too many to list. Even his action sequences are badly done. He overuses his trademark slow motion shots which seems very dated. Other action directors have pass him by. Then there is the plot. It's not simply plot holes but more about motivations. I don't understand why Fassett is doing what he's doing. It's all quite a mess. 2ff7e9595c