Review of The Wild Bunch (1969) by F Clark W — 12 Jul 2009
This still holds up. Anti heroes to the rescue! Well, not rescue, exactly. With only a pair of exceptions, the cast is uniformly good. Like Seven Samurai and the Magnificent Seven, it features a group of men engaging in a trade whose time is waning, if not already past.
Within the context of the carton violence of its spaghetti western forebears the more graphic violence of TWB packs a wallop, waking the view up from the stupor induced by bullets whose affects we do not see.
Screens tonight at 7p at the Belcourt.
This review of The Wild Bunch (1969) was written by F Clark W on 12 Jul 2009.
The Wild Bunch has generally received very positive reviews.
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