Yes, you read that right....just seven minutes into this movie and it was apparanetly clear how badly directed, written, edited and acted.

Editing First clue to a bad movie is when a very simple scene have multiple edits in just three seconds of scene. GUILTY. A chase scene was edited so badly that you did not know who were the good guys or bad guys.

Direction: The villain is only five seconds behind me, I ran off the road, get stuck, get pushed out and now the villain is about 30 seconds behind me. Stupid...just stupid. Oh, the the villain is steadily firing a machine gun and not hitting anything once.

Writing/Acting: I am about to lose my life and I rattle off a statement with the same emotion of ordering a soy latte.

Skip this movie.

I believe that if you're transporting nitroglycerin in two trucks, it would be best if the two trucks were not driving nose-to-tail. It would be better if they were separated by a time difference, so that if one truck blows up, the other doesn't go with it. I'm sure I saw this in the two previous versions of this film.

The principle of using two trucks is to improve the chances of at least one getting through. However, nobody in this film thinks about this, or they wouldn't be driving nose to tail. The glass canisters containing the nitroglycerin look quite fragile, and they are simply stacked in crates with nothing to cushion them against each other, so you hear them rattling along as the trucks hurtle around hairpin bends. I remember that "Sorceror" had the nitro sticks buried in crates of sand.

Anyway the nitro is not that powerful, because we have the heroine throwing some canisters at an attacking vehicle, and she needs three tries before the explosion is enough to knock the vehicle off the road. I'm surprised she didn't blow herself up with the overhand throwing, so once again, the nitro isn't much more powerful than apples.

Also we should question the bandits chasing a truck the size of a barn door, and failing to put one bullet, from a 50 cal machine gun, in the back of it where the nitro is stored. They can't even hit the heroine when she's climbing out of the cab and onto the roof of the nitro vehicle.

At some point, one of the crew shoots his co-driver so that he can get his share of the money that they are promised when they get there. Did I fall asleep and miss something? The hero and his brother were promised a million each to do the drive. At what point was it stated that there is a reward for completion of the job payable to whoever survives? It was quite clearly stated in both previous movies, but not in this. Suddenly, out of the blue, one driver shoots another and comes up with this fantasy idea that he will now get his share.

Anyway, point of information, the European release of "Sorceror" was a re-edit, and put the four back stories as flashbacks throughout the film. A much better version in my opinion.

This is another example of a minimum-effort remake by people who think they are being creative by changing elements from the source material so they can pat themselves on the back for their "creativity" rather than to better fit a carefully crafted retelling.

The original by Clouzot and remake by Friedkin are brilliant and should have been enough to inform the makers of this train wreck that they were out of their depth. Instead they forged ahead and proved they don't understand the story and characters or why the setting was just as important.

Instead of the Colombian jungle with dangers around every corner including cliff-side roads, fallen trees, rivers with sketchy bridges, wildlife, etc, they chose to set this in the middle of the boring desert with long stretches of flat, easily-traversed roads and nothing of interest to even look at.

The original opens with a hyper-patient study of the characters who will eventually take up the challenge, while Sorceror uses pre-Colombia vignettes to introduce the characters and their reasons for ending up together.

This one opens with a pounding score that can't save one of the most boring "action" sequences I've ever seen. It's shot like a Honda Civic commercial, but then becomes more laughable when one of the vehicles gets stuck on a small hump because the driver (and director) apparently don't realize they are in a 4WD truck (or understand how motor vehicles in general work). The other vehicle pulls up and they chat about needing to go, but driver 1 is adamant about not leaving behind the (pointless MacGuffin). The other driver takes off, but SURPRISE(?), circles around to push the other truck over the speed bump. So exciting...Not. Meanwhile, somehow the vehicle that was in hot pursuit is conveniently much farther back than was previously shown.

We get a boring shootout that is somehow resolved and then a sex scene that provides no character development and further demonstrates a complete unawareness by the writer and director of the setting in which they placed their "remake"