Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (Special Edition) > Reviews > All Guns Blazing

Author's product rating:   

Did you enjoy it?	Loved it
Story	Outstanding
Characters / Performances	Outstanding
Special Effects	Standard
How does it compare to similar films?	Outstanding

Advantages:	great action, great script, great acting   -  did I say the film was great
Disadvantages:	none, absolutely none

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

You know what? It just doesn't hurt to laugh anymore. You've got to love these guys, facing who knows what odds to become some of the most notorious bank robbers of all time. They never had a cent, everything they tried was botched, broken or wrong. They shouldn't be role models but they are.

The film centres on the lives of Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford). Filmed at a time when Newman and Redford were at their best looking you really didn't give a damn that they were robbing banks.

There were many memorable segments in this movie - the endless chase scene (it was slow, not a fast chase) that must have lasted for days, everytime they looked, there was the guy in the white hat on their tail ("Who are those guys?")- the confession that the notorious Sundance, crime fighter extraordinaire, had never shot a person before - standing on the ledge with the posse on their tail and no where to go but down ("I can't swim" .... "Hell, the fall will kill us") - blowing up the train (a little dynamite will do ya) and the discussion with Woodcock, the protector of the goods.

I also loved the sequence slowing Butch and Sundance sitting in the hotel room listening to the sheriff, standing right below them, trying to get a posse together to go after them, not knowing they were right above them. Another great scene is Butch riding that bicycle. He looked like he was having so darn much fun! Katherine Ross looked great in this scene as well.

I loved the beginning with the film clips and then showing Butch in that sepia toned photography. It somehow added authenticity to the story. Probably the most famous and remembered scene in the movie is the final one - Butch and Sundance, trapped in the abandoned house or fort, whatever, they have a couple of bullets each, they are shot, they are beaten, they are dying, they never give up. That's how I want to go out - facing unmeasurable odds with all guns blazing!