tangreat-bk Despite a few issues, the movie coasts along on the charms of it's iconic duo.We have seen these buddy movies before. Pairing up two characters with opposite temperaments together. In this movie Paul Newman is the easy going and talkative gang leader and Robert Redford is the laconic dead shot. This pairing works wonders. And their interactions easily form the best part of the movie.In the first half of the movie we see them both fleeing from a posse that attempts to pursue them. The movie successfully creates a feeling of dread while hardly showing anything but the outlines of the pursuers from afar. There is a note of impending doom in the air that the movie captures so successfully in this part.But don't worry it's not all serious. In fact it's hardly. There are jokes a plenty. This movie will have you smiling from ear to ear. This is a basically a road trip movie in guise of a western. There are some inspired choices by the director, like the sepia filtered opening, a montage of photos instead of exposition, and of course the iconic ending shot.I have a few issues with this movie. The third act seeps with aimlessness and the movie is not sure what to do with it's characters. Also the Katherine Ross character is really underdeveloped.

SlyGuy21 They just don't make movies like this anymore. I know that phrase gets thrown around a lot nowadays, but man is it true here. A movie that focuses entire on villains, but Newman and Redford are so charming that you want them to get away. The story's simple, two outlaws try to get away from the law, but it catches up with them. What really elevates this is Newman and Redford, their chemistry is spot on. You want them to succeed, you want them to escape, you don't want them to die. It's shot beautifully, the acting feels real, the action feels real, it just works on every level. There's not a lot else I can say about this that hasn't already been said, just watch it and you'll hopefully understand where I'm coming from.

whitecaps There are some good things in this movie, a clever montage scene using what appear to be old stock photographs (for most younger movie audiences the scene probably goes on too long, but that wasn't a problem for me) and some clever and/or funny dialogue, but there is a minority camp that doesn't like this movie and I'm in that camp, and we're all in it for the same reason: this is an incredibly smug movie.

J Besser Maybe the most entertaining movie ever made. It's violent but it doesn't matter. There's more music in it than "Paint Your Wagon". But it doesn't matter. Western fans like . Lay people love it. I can't explain it. I guess a lot of the credit goes to George Roy Hill. It's a true classic.