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Title: Buckets of Blood Masquerading as Social Commentary
Review: Sam Peckinpah really set the tone for all recent big-studio westerns, every one of which bills itself as "revisionist," as though there's anything else in the western genre left to be revised. In thie movie you can see the formula that held true in "McCabe and Mrs. Miller," "Unforgiven," and every other high-minded western to come down the pike. Every western archetype -- the hard-bitten sherriff, the posse leader, the double-dealing shop keeper -- dies a violent death. Peckinpah plainly thinks he's making a statement; in fact he's just killing anything larger than a cricket that moves. It gets old really quick.
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