Review – Southern Comfort

Any film that features a bunch of city boys running afoul of back-woods misfits is inevitably going to invite comparisons to Deliverance. But this one isn’t quite as vicious (or at the very least not quite so sexually graphic), and it’s a little easier to understand that motivations of the Cajun antagonists. After all, the group of Louisiana National Guardsmen (who we’re supposed to be rooting for) stole their boats and then blew up one of their shacks. The disintegration of the unit due to external duress and internal strife is ultimately more macho than clever, and things start to really get convoluted in the end.  See if desperate