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Release Date: 04 June, 2002 Retail Price: $19.98 OUR Price: $17.98 You SAVE: $2.00! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
Hombre Reviews
Doesn't Work
This has got to be one of the worst Westerns of all time, on a par with some of the 60's Italian offerings. The script is ghastly, the acting is absolutely terrible. I am not a Paul Newman fan, as I believe he has always been highly over-rated as an actor, but he outdoes himself with bad acting in this movie. Richard Boone sorrily plays his usual predictable part, exactly the same role he played in "Big Jake".
I hate it when a director takes a movie that could be entertaining and ruins it by trying to make it a PC social commentary. And that is exactly what happened in this movie.
"Now what do you suppose hell is gonna look like?"
Fine performances by a laconic Paul Newman, a menacing Richard Boone, Martin Balsam as a Mexican (hahahahaha wait hahahaha), 3 hot women in a stagecoach (bet you never saw that before), and without a doubt the worst special effects in the history of the Western.
OK, let's start with the "blood thing" that another reviewer mentioned as well. At 1:00:51 of the film, Paul Newman is standing on the back of the stagecoach aiming his rifle at the sky. Candy from Bonanza catches one of these errant rounds and SPLAT! The "blood" first appears as a red spot on Candy's face, then on the next frame somebody apparently glopped red nail polish onto the print itself. You really have to see this to believe it. Then Cameron Mitchell takes the next round, and he is rocketed from his horse like he was shot out of a cannon. No blood though, they must have used the whole bottle on Candy.
Technical nits aside, and there are many more, this is an interesting but semi-boring movie that leans a little to heavy on the "message" while not making much of an attempt to connect with the audience. Frederic March is excellent as usual as the crooked Indian Agent that's been skimming the treasury of cash allocated to buy food for Apaches on the reservation, and now is on the run with his wife Barbara Rush who is totally out of place and does not belong in this movie. Diane Cilento is amazing as the boarding house mom displaced after Newman inherits and sells her livelihood out from under her. She hides her contempt for Newman very well. The first hour is a sleepthrough, the second hour moves at a little better pace, but as with a lot of these message flicks from this era, the finale is completely unsatisfying and leaves you flat.
The soundtrack can basically be found in other Western drivel like Will Penny, or The Shootout. Sort of Walking Tallish if you know what I mean.
The DVD wins no pity points either. The transfer is fine, pretty clean actually, with no remnants or artifacts unless you count the nail polish. The Dolby 2.0 is just adequate, there's not enough action here to justify pushing your speakers. No extras, just trailers for other Newman flicks. I do have one question though, how the Hell did they get those horses to do that? 3 waterbags
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