May 16, 2008
Not as good as legend would suggest.
The Wild Bunch Reviews and Ratings
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April 21, 2008I need to revisit this one. Haven't seen it in years. But I remember it as amazing.
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April 10, 2008el Oeste nunca habia sido tan salvaje, y aun no es tan salvaje como en esta pelicula...
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April 3, 2008a no-holds-bard breakthrough of a movie. just amazing cinematography. epic gun fights, betrayal, survival, outliving society...stellar acting performances as well. a gripping, graphic story about Old West outlaws reaching the end of their Old West. a classic Western in its own ...( read more)
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March 29, 2008The quintessential "death of the West(ern)" film. Peckinpah was honorably amazing in his quest for brutal realism on screen. Love what the Monty Python group did in tribute to him with the lawn party. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid also salutes Peckinpah's vision....( read more)
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March 22, 2008Phenomenal! Excellent action scenes and superb editing. The final battle when the remaining 4 members take on 200 Mexican soldiers is outstanding. Excellent use of slow-mo effects.
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March 15, 2008William Holden, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ernest Borgnine, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates star in Sam Peckinpah's "classic" story of a gang of outlaws as they attempt to make one last score in the waning days of the "Wild West". There's plenty of action, shootouts and blood-lett...( read more)
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March 8, 2008recommended by xgaryx-
Not a bad film and very unconventional for a western... I didn't get all the hype about this film though. It's good and has some nice cinematography, but not as brilliant as some have suggested. It is worth a watch if you can catch it on cable. -
March 7, 2008Gritty and violent, with one of the most unexpected, aggressive climaxes ever captured on film.
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March 4, 2008Among the top 5 westerns ever made and Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece, The Wild Bunch is a truly revolutionary film produced at the most pivotal moment in film history. An orgy of violence, it received the controversial X rating before it was relegated to the porn industry. Howeve...( read more)
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February 2, 2008best western ever! a work of poetry meditating on violence, camaraderie, and the end of an era, while thrilling with two of the most bloody and violent yet visually stunning shoot-outs ever commited to film.
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January 29, 2008Excellent western. Extremely violent and gritty for it's time. Great performances all around and fantastic western action.
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January 18, 2008One of the best works from Sam Peckinpah and one of the best westerns ever made, the history of a gropup ofbandits that see with sadness the twilight of a great era, old and tired, there is no other way to finish they career that die in the battlefield.
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January 17, 2008Sam Peckinpah's eulogy to the old west is a classic of the genre, and one of the best films ever made. One of the most striking things about this film is the total lack of a "good guy vs. bad guy" mentality, something Peckinpah made clear right from the opening scene when Holden'...( read more)
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January 7, 2008muy jodida .. muy jodida .. mucho gore, mucho combate, pasa de todo .. un western lujoso. el q se parece al capitan monasterio hace un papel groso .. muy recomendable
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January 7, 2008"when you side with a man you stay with him and if you can't do that you're like some animal. you're finished!" - pike. just watched the directors cut on a newly bought dvd. i love watching this movie. can view it again and again. directed by the great sam peckinpah and starring ...( read more)
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January 6, 2008the storyline seems a bit slow in places but the shootouts are great as well as the cast
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November 28, 2007Ever since that sketch on Monty Python that parodied Peckinpah as having ultra violent films I was obsessed with seeing it for myself. What I saw was a Western that revolved around characters with all the social graces of pitbulls, soaked in bloody gun fights and copius amounts o...( read more)
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November 28, 2007One of cinemas best moments is The Wild Bunch. It's an absolutely brilliant movie that impresses on every level.
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November 3, 2007The Wild West is starting to disappear and Bishop (William Holden) and his gang are planning one last job before they retire, unfortunately for them an old gang member Thornton (Robert Ryan) has been forced into stopping them. The characters in this story are well done and it is...( read more)
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October 18, 2007Deke Thornton: [addressing his posse] You think Pike and old Sykes haven't been watchin' us. They know what this is all about - and what do I have? Nothin' but you egg-suckin', chicken stealing gutter trash with not even sixty rounds between you. We're after men - and I wish to G...( read more)
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October 17, 2007Z Channel called me out. Apparently, everyone who's anyone has seen this movie. I hadn't before this weekend. (I almost didn't get to see it anyway because of a scratched disc, but luckily I found a VHS of the Director's Cut letterboxed. How lucky is that?)
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October 10, 2007*It was alright. This movie never really grabbed my attention. It was alright.
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October 1, 2007The most representative of Bloody Sam's westerns, THE WILD BUNCH is still one of the greatest in the genre. Here, Peckinpah reveals his bitter comment and nihilistic approach and still that light nostalgic feel at times. Top of the icing : some of the best shootouts ever to be fi...( read more)
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September 13, 2007A wildly entertaining, violent, and hugely influential, western. It says something about us as viewers when we see what we see on the screen and can enjoy it immensely.
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September 6, 2007One of the all-time classics. Not a bad actor in the bunch (no pun intended).
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September 5, 2007The movie that inspired the violence of John Woo movies. A western about the last remants of the old west going out with guns blazing. With the simple message at the end never leave your friend behind.
