What an absolute asshole. The movie is a funny and pointed satire. I just wish the anachronistic elements had been used a bit more consistently from the start or perhaps only at the end as a hilarious deus ex machina.
EDIT: apparently Alex Cox himself agrees with me now: "To emphasize these similarities between past and present Cox took Wurlitzer’s script and peppered the later stages of it with anachronisms: Walker’s face appears on Newsweek; empty Coca-Cola bottles lay next to the heads of two prisoners who are buried up to their necks in sand; and in the film’s finale, a helicopter carrying heavily-armed US troops lands in Nicaragua. Although he believes otherwise now, Wurlitzer complained at the time that these touches would alienate the audience and indeed they did. Those interested in the subject matter were not quite ready for such elements and found them bewildering, perhaps Monty Python-eqsue. Cox now feels that he should have introduced them at an earlier point in the film, so they would not have seemed so jarring to the audience. It could also be argued that introducing the anachronisms so late in the picture succeeds in adding to the sense of self-destruction."
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ucuruju
What an absolute asshole. The movie is a funny and pointed satire. I just wish the anachronistic elements had been used a bit more consistently from the start or perhaps only at the end as a hilarious deus ex machina.EDIT: apparently Alex Cox himself agrees with me now: "To emphasize these similarities between past and present Cox took Wurlitzer’s script and peppered the later stages of it with anachronisms: Walker’s face appears on Newsweek; empty Coca-Cola bottles lay next to the heads of two prisoners who are buried up to their necks in sand; and in the film’s finale, a helicopter carrying heavily-armed US troops lands in Nicaragua. Although he believes otherwise now, Wurlitzer complained at the time that these touches would alienate the audience and indeed they did. Those interested in the subject matter were not quite ready for such elements and found them bewildering, perhaps Monty Python-eqsue. Cox now feels that he should have introduced them at an earlier point in the film, so they would not have seemed so jarring to the audience. It could also be argued that introducing the anachronisms so late in the picture succeeds in adding to the sense of self-destruction."
Source-- https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2003/alex-cox/walker-2/
meyer73
Quite acidic satire - well worth watching. It's a shame this isn't more known.Kasparius
One of the greatest OST by Joe Strummerbilurgher
One of the best films of all times.