Not without interest but this starts so well with some great long shots and then some startling up close violence and the story is unfolding as we struggle to keep up, and then it pretty much stops. We are introduced to a very young Burt Reynolds who looks pretty good with his horse and rifle but then we get to meet the baddie brothers and they seem far more interesting. Lovely old train but lame plot which necessitates the town's folk (who have said ‘no’ to guns) being able to do nothing except sit around and wait hoping that Joe will sort things out. Thing is we have to sit watching them sit. And so it plods on. There are a couple of spurts of nasty violence but the girls are wasted, criminally so in the case of Nicoletta Machiavelli and we are forced to imagine just how good this might have been.

This is the least inspired of Corbucci's westerns and it really doesn't earn its incredible score. But fuck, the score elevates the material so much the movie is still totally exhilarating

Burt Reynolds plays an Indian. He throws a hatchet at the camera. He's basically Batman - except his skin is orange.

I'm not sure Serbio Corbucci was a great director, but he has made some great movies. Navajo Joe is not one of them, but it doesn't mean I didn't have fun with it. It is a very silly flick, quite stupid in places, but it moves at a brisk pace and you should watch it for all the outrageous leaping and shooting Reynolds (together with a toopee on his head) does in the film.

Joe isn’t as iconic as Django (obviously) and this doesn’t have the tragic sweep, snowy magnificence or star power of the The Great Silence, but the Morricone score helps, and a young Burt Reynolds gives his all in bringing a wild west symbol to Fairbanks style life, leaping and running and strangling up a storm. Refreshingly casual in the way it reverses the standard reviling / pandering dynamic usually applied to movie Indians; Joe isn’t a vicious brute or a noble savage, just a pissed off guy aiming to kill everyone who had a direct role in the murder of his wife. Not surprising that Tarantino loves this. Not much else to comment on here, exact maybe that Fernando Rey looks like a chubby Quaker without his facial hair.

[B-]

Oh, hey, I recognize the music pull from a Kill Bill!

Burt Reynolds tears it up in this Spaghetti Western, stabbing, shooting, arrowing, just straight fucking dudes up.

All without the power of his mustache. It's fun, but a bit of a trifle.

There's a nice sick burn that he gives a guy when the guy says N. Joe isn't an American.

Spaghetti Cinema Film 1

Decent direction by Corbucci, but Burt's kind of flat leaving Aldo Sambrell to pick up the slack which he does admirably. Fernando Rey and the stunning Nicoletta Machiavelli are somewhat underused and the theme song wears out its welcome early on.

É pouco habitual ter um índio como protagonista de um western-spaghetti. Gostei de o rever embora não seja um dos meus favoritos do Corbucci. A banda sonora é melhor do que me recordava. Se calhar o melhor que o filme tem para oferecer.

Enjoyable if excessively formulaic Spaghetti Western lacks any truly great characters. Burt Reynolds (an actor I don't care for) is fine but puzzling as Joe. Derivative plot aside, it's executed entertainingly and it's short.

Not without interest but this starts so well with some great long shots and then some startling up close violence and the story is unfolding as we struggle to keep up, and then it pretty much stops. We are introduced to a very young Burt Reynolds who looks pretty good with his horse and rifle but then we get to meet the baddie brothers and they seem far more interesting. Lovely old train but lame plot which necessitates the town's folk (who have said ‘no’ to guns) being able to do nothing except sit around and wait hoping that Joe will sort things out. Thing is we have to sit watching them sit. And so it plods on. There are a couple of spurts of nasty violence but the girls are wasted, criminally so in the case of Nicoletta Machiavelli and we are forced to imagine just how good this might have been.

Native gets revenge
Major QT influence
Rooting for white death