查尔斯(安德烈·杜索里埃 André Dussollier 饰)曾是一位精明强干备受尊重的警官,如今,慢慢老去的他不得不提前开始他的退休生活,因为他被查出了患有阿兹海默症。就这样,查尔斯来到了一家专门针对阿兹海默症患者开放的疗养院生活,这里规律而又宁静的日子让查尔斯渐渐开始觉得一切并没有他想象的那么糟糕。
然而,噩梦还是开始了。在疗养院中接二连三的发生了患者死亡的意外,多年来浸淫在警队中的查尔斯敏感的察觉到一切都不是巧合,是有一个邪恶的人躲在幕后,亲手策划了这些死亡。查尔斯独自展开了对事件的调查,就在他里真相越来越近的同时,危险也离他越来越近。
Four seedy criminal outcasts risk their lives in pursuit of redemption, both legal and moral, by driving unreliable trucks stocked with nitroglycerine through dangerous landscape to cap an oil well fire in a Central American banana republic. Featuring a trance-like score by Tangerine Dream and a visceral, astonishing performance by Roy Scheider, Friedkin's reinterpretation of Clouzot’s 1953 masterpiece is perhaps the best remake of all time and is among Friedkin’s most daring works. Three sequences alone –a chaotic car crash in Boston, the unloading of charred bodies in a Central American village, and the explosives laden trucks crossing a rickety storm-blown bridge – render Sorcerer a classic and retain their power to make audiences gasp. Released the same year as Star Wars, Friedkin's audacious masterpiece represents the braver road abandoned by the studio system.