Walker

Walker (Criterion #423). 1987 Universal Pictures.
Starring: Ed Harris, Peter Boyle, Sy Richardson, Marlee Matlin, Xander Berkeley, Rene Auberjonois
Music: Joe Strummer
Director: Alex Cox
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Alex Cox directed this bizarre film depiction (I really can't say "biopic") of the American adventurer William Walker, who walked (ha!) away from a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine during the 1850s to become a soldier of fortune who first invades Mexico, and then, takes over the country of Nicaragua, making himself President. The movie was intentionally made with anachronisms such as helicopters, Zippo lighters, soldiers brandishing automatic rifles, and an automobile passing a horse carriage.

After Walker, Alex Cox was never employed again by a major Hollywood studio. Sucks to be him, or perhaps not.

This movie was too weird for a lot of critics back in 1987, apart from those at the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times, but I did enjoy it. Recommended.