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Title: Overrated Macho Bore-fest with ZERO sense of humor and wit
Review: Technical qualities aside and leaving out the excellent final shootout scene which slow-motion blood-ballets its way onto a higher artistic plane, the ENTIRE rest of this film is MEDIOCRE AT BEST. Not only is it NOT the greatest Western of all time, and not even close to being one of the top 20 Westerns ever made, it's not even Peckinpah's best Western (that honor belongs to "Ride the High Country," a much less bloody and far superior film).And even in the action scenes most of what Peckinpah did was to take the already hugely popular Sergio Leone level of violence, magnify it, and squirt some blood in the air in super-slow motion, while leaving out all the humor, lunacy, and imagination that makes Leone's films so great.
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