StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

smatysia Seems like a lot of wasted potential. Paul Newman and Lee Marvin have some decent chemistry between their characters, and Strother Martin and Wayne Rogers are OK. A young Hector Elizondo is a long way from the manager of the Beverly Wilshire Regency. Carole King does nice work on the theme song. The cinematography looks very nice, and the direction is unobtrusive. But there is simply no there there. The film has a plot that seems to be heading somewhere, but just sort of fizzles out with no closure, no climax, and no denouement. I wonder if the source novel was this unsatisfying. It would be really hard to recommend anyone to watch this film.

classicsoncall I never thought a movie with Paul Newman and Lee Marvin in the leads could ever move this slow. Half the time they didn't seem to be employing the same page from the script in their scenes together, and it was well into the picture before I was able to figure out that Leonard (Marvin) was actually working with, and not against Jim Kane (Newman). Kane seemed to be conflicted over just about everything in his life, and Leonard used these exaggerated hand gestures every once in a while that seemed unconnected to any thought process he might have had at the time. Just very confusing.Then on top of that you have Strother Martin as their crooked employer and Wayne Rogers as something of a man in the middle to keep things well oiled between Kane and Garrett (Martin). What this all leads to is a massive 'failyuh to communicate', as a Martin character once stated to a Newman character in the much better "Cool Hand Luke".Sorry, but this one just didn't grab me the way I thought it would going in. Quite seriously, the only thing that really sparked my interest was Lee Marvin's musings about colored salt - that seemed to make a lot of sense to me for the reason he gave. When I heard it I wanted to say 'correcto' like the Mexican in the movie, but I never learned that one in Spanish class.

guyperea-1 Paul Newman and Lee Marvin of the daily work in the pocket of the Rider to make a existence on the new day's in Horse Riding. The making of the film shortly after the high lights of the Vietnam War gave a lightness to the audience in Newman and Marvin sense of display of Comedy. A old play to the scene came out with Dr Starr - the 1930's Singing Cowboy, Rider and Roper also used in name Dusty Starr, who could wrestle ~ resell ~ a cow in seconds as well as with a fist in fights he added to the fight for a pocket full of money to exist on. Lee Marvin comic approach to has own acting on how to talk to Paul Newman with hands and arms and his shoulder in how to attend to daily existence in gaining their own money for their pocket.

bobbobwhite The above line of dialog is all you need to know about the abbreviated mental capacity of the two lead characters played by Paul Newman and Lee Marvin, and why they were such losers trying to be important cattle brokers in Mexico, and of course failing miserably. The Summary quote above was just one of Marvin's many bright ideas that went nowhere.Newman and Marvin were terrific here, but two other stars in this comedy, to me, were Marvin's great old '60's red Buick convertible and, of course, the terrific Strother Martin, whose hilarious line of "wait, wait, wait" in this film was almost as effective as his very famous one in Cool Hand Luke and his less famous one in Butch Cassidy of, "yes, there are plenty of jobs don't you want to know why?" He was the best at memorable lines, and he had some of the best ones in many of Newman's films over the years. Wayne Rogers(MASH) was in it too, playing a cattle buying middleman who was just about as dumb as the star characters.This film was very entertaining in the very funny and goofy way Newman and Marvin played off each other with their lines, both thinking they were so clever when they were really just abject loser dopes. Newman's character was actually a good and simple guy underneath it all but he was just too dumb to breath out, and Marvin's sleazy small time crook and deal negotiator character thought he was so clever but was actually laughable in his incompetency. "Spies are everywhere", he said as he grossly overestimated his importance to the world, which was next to nothing.Reminded me a lot of old Laurel and Hardy film stories, where great plans always came to nothing after much useless, but hilarious, activity.Very entertaining film and a lot better than its rating for the very funny interplay of these 3 terrific actors.