The Wages of Fear

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The Wages of Fear

2024

1h 44m

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Adventure

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To prevent a deadly explosion, an illicit crack team has 24 hours to drive two truckloads of nitroglycerin across a desert laden with danger.

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Archi Sengupta

LeisureByte.com

In spite of the protagonist brothers having a good backstory and the current issue at hand is one that has to be created within a certain time, The Wages of Fear feels slow and unfinished.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 4, 2024

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Maxance Vincent

InSession Film

Making it more action-driven isn’t necessarily a problem if the character relationships and the core of Arnaud’s story remain intact and as thrilling as they were. But there are little thrills to be had in this hackneyed version.

Rated: D-

Jul 2, 2024

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Daniel Rester

Willamette Week

This Wages of Fear is a slick but unremarkable rendering of Arnaud’s premise, mostly sacrificing tense situations with the nitro in favor of clunky flashbacks and boring shootouts.

Apr 23, 2024

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JK Sooja

Common Sense Media

There isn't much here to justify this remake.

Apr 17, 2024

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Christian Valentin

Spectrum Culture

Purely as a new rendition of its namesake, The Wages of Fear might as well be an exercise in anti-tension.

Apr 4, 2024

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Matt Lynch

In Review Online

Why anyone thought The Wages of Fear needed a bog-standard DTV version, we may never know.

Apr 3, 2024

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Noah F

I watch these types of films and wonder why you would bother to waste your money producing a remake that is a complete and utter failure. Ridiculous action sequences that are so bad that you find yourself yawning uncontrollably!! Guys with the high ground armed to the teeth are outgunned by revolvers!! Yeah ok. The original Wages Of Fear and the 1977 remake The Sorcerer are where you should go. This movie wants to insult your intelligence and they succeed!!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

07/18/24

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Dave L

The acting in this movie is horrible and the script is totally predictable. A waste of 2 hours.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/02/24

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Francesco C

It is so bad on so many different aspects: unbelievable. Who gave the green light to such an unprofessional 2nd remake of the 1953 masterpiece, that was followed by its first very good remake, the "Sorcerer" in 1997 ?

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/12/24

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Carlos Alberto C

Incoherent, poor film making, the director cannot make any situation suspenseful, let alone credible. The editing is even worse. The screenplay? Nefast. This movie does not even get to the quality of an Ed Wood movie.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/21/24

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Mark H

Dumbest movie in ages. Bandits have been shooting and killing your crew. I know! Let's suck face next to the nitroglycerin truck! If this turkey was dubbed, subtitle it. If not, find real actors next time. In any case, view the original w. Yves Montand in b&w.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/12/24

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Uwe M

Oustanding the acting of Alban Lenoir but the script is a mess. Waited for the story and characters to develop which took ages. Confusing events which do not contribute to the story. As the great scene of the original movie from 1953 is included where they have to cross a small lake of oil, which is a clear reminder that this movie refers to the original the writer/s messed the film up.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

04/06/24

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Julien Leclercq

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Franck Gastambide

Fred

Alban Lenoir

Alex

Ana Girardot

Clara

Sofiane Zermani

Gauthier

Astrid Whettnall

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Synopsis

To prevent a deadly explosion, an illicit crack team has 24 hours to drive two truckloads of nitroglycerin across a desert laden with danger.

Director: Julien Leclercq
Producer: Julien Madon, Julien Leclercq, Mikael Govciyan
Screenwriter: Hamid Hlioua, Julien Leclercq
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Labyrinthe Films, Netflix France, TF1 Studio
Genre: Action, Adventure
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 29, 2024
Runtime: 1h 44m

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