Eye Candy #388 - "The Ostermann Weekend"

The Ostermann Weekend:  Sam Peckinpah's final film and it's darned near incoherent. Sure, we get some of the Peckinpah artistic flourishes, but it's obviously a half-hearted effort based on a script worth about a quarter-effort. Even the scriptwriter said his version of the script shouldn't have been used. Compared to "The Wild Bunch" and "The Getaway", it's as if "The Osterman Weekend" was done by a completely different director. It's lethargic to a fault, full of characters you don't care a whit about because you're given no reason to care about. And no one really cares about bad things happening to people that its hard to empathize and sympathize with. This film, like the older films in Peckinpah's oeuvre ("Cross of Iron", "Convoy"), lack the overall vitality and spark of his earlier films, showing the dissipating effects of a dissipated life on the once-great director.