'' Walker '' garnered predominantly negative reviews ; Rita Kempley wrote , " it 's gross as it is muddled as it is absurd " , in her review for '' The Washington Post '' . Fellow '' Washington Post '' reviewer Desson Howe criticized the " perplexing fusion of cartoon and docudrama ... " In his review for '' Newsweek '' , David Ansen wrote , " His scenes have no shape , his characters are stick figures , the wit is undergraduate and his soggy set pieces of slow-motion carnage are third-rate Peckinpah imitations . " Gene Siskel gave the film zero stars and called it " Unquestionably one of the worst films of the year , made even more shocking because it was directed by the often inventive Alex Cox . " Gene Siskel 's cohost Roger Ebert also gave the film a rare zero-star rating . Jay Scott gave the film a positive review in '' The Globe and Mail '' : " Cox exposes the limitations of historical drama in '' Walker '' with a calculated disregard of its conventions . " Vincent Canby also praised Cox 's film in '' The New York Times '' : " '' Walker '' is witty , rather than laugh-out-loud funny . Without being solemn , it 's deadly serious ... '' Walker '' is something very rare in American movies these days . It has some nerve . " Director Alex Cox was never employed again by a major Hollywood studio , and his subsequent films have received only limited distribution in the United States . In a 2008 interview with '' The A.V. Club '' , Cox said , " Distribution is controlled by the studios , and I 've been on the blacklist of the studios for the last 20 years ... The last movie I was asked to direct was '' The Running Man '' ... which was actually quite a good film , I thought . I would have liked to have done '' The Running Man '' . It was just that Walker happened at the same time . " '' Walker '' was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival
38th Berlin International Film Festival
38th Berlin International Film Festival
Walker (film)