The Osterman Weekend (1983) review

Television journalist John Tanner (Rutger Hauer), whose program criticizes the dubious activities of the U.S. government, is recruited by CIA officer Lawrence Fassett (John Hurt) to help bring down the mysterious Omega network (which allegedly consists of Soviet spies) and is told that three of his college buddies, Bernard Osterman (Craig T. Nelson), Richard Tremayne (Dennis Hopper) and Joe Cardone (Chris Sarandon), are working for the KGB, so for a weekend reunion, Fassett installs security cameras in Tanner's house to monitor their conversations.  This junky bit of Cold War paranoia (based on the book by Robert Ludlum) is unfortunately the last directorial effort by the legendary Peckinpah and while the cast is fine (Burt Lancaster has a small role as the director of the Agency), everything else seemingly went wrong: neither Sam nor screenwriter Alan Sharp liked the script, Sam fought with the producers and the movie was re-edited, and in its present form is an incoherent debacle.  I had a feeling it was going to be a rough go from the opening sequence in which Fassett's wife is murdered in her bed, and then it trudges on with a lot of name dropping, slow-motion fighting and eventually a swimming pool on fire.