The Wild Bunch

*The Original Director's Cut* This film grew on me the entire time it was on. I knew I liked it from the get go, but there is just so much packed in, so many great locations, gun fights, chases, robberies, plans gone bad, etc that it's hard for me to find a whole lot of fault with it. This was rockin a solid 4 and then I got hit with that final action sequence and it sent it over the edge. The kind of action that Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez try to emulate, just seemed ahead of it's time for 1969. This is the first movie I have seen with William Holden, although looking at his read more

Review by Pauline Kael | The New Yorker Its a traumatic poem of violence, with imagery as ambivalent as Goyas. By a supreme burst of filmmaking energy, Sam Peckinpah is able to convert chaotic romanticism into exaltation; the film is perched right on the edge of incoherence, yet its comparable in scale and sheer poetic force to Kurosawas “The Seven Samurai.” The movie, set in 1913, is about a band of killers who flee Texas for Mexico, and Peckinpah has very intricate, contradictory feelings about them. He got so wound up in the aesthetics of violence that what had begun as a realistic... read more

8.8 grupo salvaje una obra magna y cumbre del género western. peckinpah aporta una gran dosis de violencia deleitándose en ella tratándola como arte. read more