Walker

Alex Cox and Rudy Wurlitzer have one of the more perplexing and rather cool works of late 80s subversive film-making with Walker, a film about a real man and his mad overthrow of the government of Nicaragua in the mid 1850s.... Full review

Walker was both a box office and critical failure upon its initial release, and even though it's not hard to see why (viewers expecting a historic drama played straight, by Cox of all directors, will be sorely disappointed), it certainly... Full review

"Walker" is an unique film, but its easy to see why it flopped commercially and critically when originally released. The film tells the tale of a 19th century mercenary soldier who invades Nicaragua to install democracy and winds up making... Full review

This is one of the greatest films i have ever seen. The only issue I have with it is that it is out of print. I'd do almost anything to find a copy. While not the most accurate account of... Full review

This is the story of William Walker's take over of Nicaragua in the late 19th century been done in a very very deliberate style which forcibly draws comparisons between Walker's actions and the madness of the Reagan administrations similar adventures.... Full review

In the 1850's an American soldier-of-fortune known as William Walker marches his army into Nicaragua to take control of the country for a wealthy and powerful capitalist, Cornelius Vanderbilt. Through time, Walker sets himself up as the ruler of the... Full review

Visionary movie-making. I will not write any spoiler, so I can't describe the brilliant way Cox expresses his story with some mind-bending visual and verbal devices. Some might dismiss it as trickery, but I think of it as magical realism.William... Full review

William Walker was an adventurer who believed in the manifest destiny of Americans to rule in foreign lands. Walker and his small ragged band of Americans took control of Nicaragua in the late 1850’s, during a time of civil war that... Full review

Alex Cox has created a visionary work. This film is a masterpiece. It's a one and a half hour joke with an incredible punchline that indelibly changed how I view the world. Ed Harris is a dead ringer for the... Full review

I'm totally baffled by the way Alex Cox's 'Walker' has been ignored, vilified, criticised, ridiculed and slandered over the years. Maybe it's political message cuts too close to the bone, or maybe the mainstream movie critics are even more conservative... Full review

Even so, as I said, the answer is mostly yes, the film is mostly good. The filmmaking style of Walker is just shy of crossing the line into gonzo territory. The film received a pretty horrendous critical drubbing in 1987, and I'd say unfairly. ... Full Review

This doesnt sit well with the contingent of African Americans who work for Walker, nor does it go over well with the Nicaraguan people. Vanderbilt wants to take control of Nicaragua, and he wants Walker to go there to assuage and stabilize the turbulent Civil War-divided country. ... Full Review

Walker is quite a hilarious movie for much of the time, almost ecstatic in its over-the-top weirdness. What grounds Walker is that in addition to the director being an incorrigible prankster, he is also dead serious when it comes to moral judgments on power and international politics. ... Full Review

Twenty years and a few "wars for democracy" later, "Walker" seems like a positively sober assessment of American imperialism in the 20th and 21st centuries. Though the film has a cast of characters vast enough to make the late Robert Altman proud, this film belongs to William Walker and, by proxy, to Ed Harris who delivers the finest performance of his career. ... Full Review

None of these weaknesses are exceedingly detrimental to the soundtrack's overall success, for ultimately it is one of Strummer's lesser works....its plot would draw not-so-subtle parallels to the Reagan administration's support of anti-Sandinista Contras..... ... Full Review

Sonora, Mexico, with ragtag soldiers and peasant revolutionaries mowed down in a torrential rain of bullets, flown through the air in cannon blasts, and eating dust as they land in bloody piles. ... Full Article

Fresh off the cult-film one-two punch of Repo Man and Sid & Nancy , British director Alex Cox took a torch to his career with this agitprop satire of Ronald Reagan's misadventures in Central America. ... Full Article

BY ROGER EBERT / December 4, 1987 Some bad movies are in no hurry to announce themselves, but " Walker " declares its badness right from the opening titles with gushers of blood streaming from the wounds of men who... ... Full Article

As the story opens in 1853, American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris) and his mercenaries are driven out of N.W. Mexico (specifically Baja California and Sonora), which they had briefly ruled. [Historical note: Mexico considered the northern section of Walker's ... Full Article