Deliverance (1972) ****

Deliverance (1972), one of three excellent John Boorman films made within a five year span, still packs a punch nearly fifty years since its release. Disturbing, moving, funny and visceral in equal measure, Deliverance is a beautifully photographed (by Vilmos Zsigmond), smartly edited, and perfectly cast story of friendship, survival, and the unforgiving nature of mankind and the wilderness.