Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Smoreni Zmaj Just after watching this movie I run onto the newest list of Top 50 Movies of All Times. This one takes 7th place and Wild Bunch is not on the list at all. Screw that list. The movie is not bad, but it has a tendency to bore a bit. Nice story, solidly made and that's it.6/10

joe-93385 I won't spend too much time articulating the reasons for my disenchantment with this offering. Wasting 2 hours viewing it was painful enough. Of the thousands of titles I own or have researched, this one ranks among the very worst and clearly does not deserve the status it has gotten. To be fair, I tried to assess this film from all angles. Shame on me for purchasing it. The fact that this movie gets the high praise and recognition (ranked no.12 on AFI's 100 Greatest American Films 2007 list) is appalling. This falls right in line with America itself...low standards or no standards. It appears the Liberal and (or) grievance industry's influence may be the culprit here. I'm sorry but pretty cinematography alone does not justify treating this title with such reverence.

jcjacob-37009 The Searchers (1956), is perhaps the darkest of western films that John Ford has ever made. His intention was to not only make a film that is dynamic in scale, but to create an example about a character who is deeply and personally conflicted with his views on culture. John Wayne named his Son after the character Ethan. The film was a bit of a challenge for the filmmakers, especially when it came to shooting the movie in the land of Utah. Ford was careful with his subject matter, but was still the master when it came down to the films art.I've seen some of John Ford's Films, one of them would have to be, "The Quiet Man". Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, John Milius and Steven Spielberg have considered Ford as one of the Greatest Directors of all time. Some (if most) critics were disappointed when the film did no win any awards back in 1957. The film has stood the test as being an achievement, capturing the beauty of Utah and becoming an inspiration among many filmmakers from around the globe. John Wayne was nothing without Ford's advice or direction in the film industry.I was never fond of many westerns, but this film was a huge exception. It should be considered as a study of great Cinematography and Direction. Its' subject is deep, so you've been warned.

BasicLogic Here, folks, we got a racist, then we got a half-wit jerk-like idiot, then we got a badly scripted screenplay with bad dialog, then we got an Indian kidnapper with blue eyes. Those women/girl folks in the middle of nowhere, wearing iron-pressed custom tailored blouses, hairdos nicely done by the film hired hairdresser. Guys in this film, again, with dresses, vests and pants nicely cut and pressed, in the middle of nowhere. The scenes of the wildness looked more like in Utah instead of Texas. Catering food was served at the table with nice ceramic plates. John Wayne, played a self-centered, self-important, obnoxious racist who hated Indians and disliked half-breed, even that young man was rescued by him when that 1/2 breed was young. This pompous veteran looked down upon almost everyone, despised them.Then, it borrowed the "Preacher" as the Texas Ranger founder as part of this unbearable film. Stolen cattle could run 40 miles overnight quickly like horses to be then killed by Indians. If what we saw in this stupid film, the Indian warriors were ten-fold more than the white folks, why they bother to steal several cows overnight and pushed them 40 miles away. The war party could easily wiped out all of the settlers in that region without any problem, yet they did that, for what? Just tried to paved way for John Wayne to play a hero-worship character to be the die-hard searcher? Give me a break.His brother, a husband and father with big family, settled down in the unfriendly wildness environment, surrounded by at least three different vicious blood-thirst Indian tribes, yet he seemed to be without any knowledge to deal with such situation. He's not alert enough when the Indians came to his homestead when he heard the yawing of the wild dogs typically used by the Indians. Another stupid character was created just to serve the convenient purpose.When the search party was chased and surrounded by Indians, the dialog among and between the white riders, still got the time and heart to joke around and stabbed each other with cynical conversation. Like what we used to see in Bruce Lee's movies, there was always a jerk-like clown foolishly messed around to ruin those suppose-to-be-serious MMA fighting movies, this stupid Western film inserted a similar old fool, a clown in it and gave him a lot of dialog and jerking scenes. It ruined the film even further beyond salvage.Any good stuff in this pathetic film? Yeah, focus on the beautiful wildness, locations chosen by the movie production team. That's all.