Finally got around to this one and it did not disappoint. William Holden commands the screen. Those eyes are awesome.

It's brutal, looks fantastic and the ending is perfect. Basically I loved it.

Sam Peckinpah is slowly becoming one of my favorite directors. I've only seen this, Straw Dogs, and Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia but it's clear that all three are absolute masterpieces from a master director.

By 1969's standards, this is one of the New Hollywood westerns that ended up redefining the western genre in so many ways. Instead of the usual romanticized and melodramatic westerns of the John Wayne era, this feels real, brutal, violent while showing how the Old West was really like. The acting is superb. This has one of those casts where everytime you think one specific actor stands out above the rest, another one ends up outsthining everyone and then so on. Peckinpah puts so much energy into this film. The story is interesting and complex while the action is exciting at every turn, up until the thrilling conclusion.

From beginning to end, this film is pure cinematic brilliance and entertainment.

Building up to one of the best shootouts ever put on film, this movie is a rough-edged cowboy type picture. A bunch of guys who used to be great are now getting older and the era of cowboy train-robbers and bankrobbers is coming to an end. It's all they really know how to do. Naturally, they have to pull just one more job. This is the story of that one more job pulled by those last chancers that history is already leaving behind.

At times funny and sad with plenty of excitement, this is a good one to add to your Have-Seen list.

Some people consider this Peckinpah's masterpiece. For me, it doesn't have the immediacy of The Getaway or the emotional intensity of Straw Dogs, but it's well worth the watch.

Another great film by a truly great director.

I was watching this movie in the bar last night, and I was amazed that it still shocks. It wasn't the sexism or racism that was doing it (which is what I was expecting), but it was the violence. People were commenting about it all night. It's rare that a 40 year old movie can still evoke the same response in people that it did upon release, and these were customers coming to see Lawless and The Expendables. Most of these customers also missed the final shoot out.

Also Warren Oates is fucking more rad than Clint Eastwood yelling at a chair.

I'm not yet comfortable writing on here, so sorry that I suck.

Disappointing to say the least. For some reason this had been built up in my mind to be this great western, a homage to the new age while looking back at the golden age of the cowboy. Not sure whether I completely missed the point but it just did not click with me. Most of the characters were useless, and the Mexicans just felt like complete stereotypes.

Special mention has to go out to the DVD for this one. What a pile of crap. Warner Brothers must have rubbed the original VHS in the dirt and then just copied it over for this one. This double sided compressed mess needs burning. I'm told the blu-ray is stunning but unfortunately I will have to just imagine it.

This is one of those films built up to be so much more than it actually is.

Brutal tale about ethics among the amoral. If there's a better film shootout than the finale, I certainly haven't seen it.

Watching this with new eyes after reading "If They Move... Kill 'Em." Enters my Top 10 all time list (probably Top 5) with a head of steam.

a complex story about violence and war carefully woven with many plots and characters; it is an outstanding achievement in directing and writing.

Wonderful. That’s how I’d sum up Sam Peckinpah’s western from the slow, tense opening to that legendary cinematic climax. Great direction, good solid dialogue and a great cast of actors all combine to make this film a joy to watch.

old men

Que filme chato! Basicamente se resume a um monte de gente morrendo e rindo o tempo todo a troco de nada.

A única estrela fica pela cena do roubo do trem.