| Universal Pictures | Release Date: July 19, 1972 |
Starring:
Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall
Summary:
An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader.
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For perhaps its first half-hour, John Sturges's new Western, Joe Kidd, looks surprisingly good. It seems restrained, relaxed, unfashionably out of the current mode in its commitment to people and horses rather than to sadistic monsters and machines. Nothing remarkable, but modestly decent—a feeling that persists, with continually diminishing assurance, almost until the climax, when everything is thrown away in a flash of false theatrics, foolish symbolism and what I suspect is sloppy editing.
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The photography is undeniably beautiful, but there comes a point when we've had too many mountains and too little plot. All that holds the movie together is the screen persona of Eastwood, who is so convincingly tight-lipped that sometimes you have the feeling he knows what's going on and just won't tell.
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Photographed by the admirable Bruce Surtees, but a curiously strangled Western which can't make up its mind whether it wants to wring straight action out of the range war between poor Mexicans and a tycoon rancher (Duvall), or to explore the moral standing of the disreputable character (Eastwood) who takes law and order into his hands.
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May 4, 2020
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Jun 19, 2022
Underrated. I watched it years ago and didn't like it but I watched recently and it's a lot better than I remember. Good story, good western.
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May 26, 2023
A usual western but with Clint Eastwood starring, maybe an extra point or two.
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Apr 2, 2023
As a western, the film is attached to the genre but gives the impression that it was made with reluctance. More than just 88 minutes, it is the lack of dynamics that keeps the viewer interested.
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Oct 1, 2021
Other than the amazing scenery there was nothing I liked about this movie. TV Guide said it well, "Bad editing, uninspired direction, and a script that teetered precariously on the verge of parodying a John Wayne movie combined to make Joe Kidd nothing more than a plodding shoot-em-up."
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