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Wild Bunch, The (1969)

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Wild Bunch, The (1969) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars

Overall Rating:3.5099

Avg Critic Score:3.3935

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Movie ram-blings (Ram Samudrala)

You think movies like Natural Born Killers or Pulp Fiction glorify violence? They pale in comparison to Sam Peckinpah's modern Western, The Wild Bunch. The difference between The Wild Bunch and later movies is that the killings are committed in a more ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at Movie ram-blings (Ram Samudrala)

The Tech (MIT) (Scott Deskin)

The re-release of Sam Peckinpah's western epic, The Wild Bunch, 25 years after it was first shown in 1969, may be a puzzling sight. Aside from Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, Hollywood seems to have fallen out of the tradition of making westerns that ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at The Tech (MIT) (Scott Deskin)

DVDBeaver

Violence comes in many shapes, sizes, and forms. Twenty-six years ago, when Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch was first released, it caused a stir because of its gritty, uncompromising style. The deaths in this film are neither sterile nor heroic. When a ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at DVDBeaver

LeisureSuit.net

Ah, you mean a real guy movie," I said, nodding wisely as I always do when I have no idea what someone's talking about. Hoffman, having known me long enough to recognize that look, explained: "What I mean is a movie with a real man, you know, ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at LeisureSuit.net

not coming to a theater near you (Rumsey Taylor)

As the men that comprise Sam Peckinpahâ��s Wild Bunch ride in to a southern Texas railroad town, they pass a group of children on the townâ��s outskirt. The view is distracted, and highlights the kidsâ�� object of fascination: a scorpion trapped within a ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at not coming to a theater near you (Rumsey Taylor)

Wild Bunch, The (1969) Critic Reviews continued...

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

n an early scene of "The Wild Bunch," the bunch rides into town past a crowd of children who are gathered with excitement around their game. They have trapped some scorpions and are watching them being tortured by ants. The eyes of Pike (William ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Austin Chronicle (Jason Zech)

It's true that more rounds were consumed during the filming of The Wild Bunch than during the entire Mexican Revolution, and that Peckinpah's terrifying and beautiful ballets of death set the standard for 30 years of violence in film, but neither of ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at Austin Chronicle (Jason Zech)

JackassCritics.com (Grim Ringler)

Six men, having just failed at a high stakes bank robbery, find themselves hunted by the railroad men they have stolen from, the government who needs to exorcise them, and a friend who has betrayed them. The men take refuge in Mexico while they plan ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at JackassCritics.com (Grim Ringler)

Cinema Laser (Derek M. Germano)

THE WILD BUNCH is an American film classic that most collectors will want to add to their Laserdisc collections. Now with the restoration and Warner's excellent Letterbox transfer, they will have every reason to do so. ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at Cinema Laser (Derek M. Germano)

MCA DiscoVision Library

The Wild Bunch was finally released on LaserDisc by Warner Home Video (Catalog #: 1014). It was re-issued in Widescreen as a Directors cut with a completely restore soundtrack in the Dolby Digital AC-3 format in November 1995. A CAV release of this ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at MCA DiscoVision Library

DVD Town (John J. Puccio)

The first time Warner Bros. transferred "The Wild Bunch" to disc, it was in a single-disc, non-anamorphic edition that included very few extras. I'm happy to report the studio has rectified that situation with this new, two-disc special edition, ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at DVD Town (John J. Puccio)

The Age

Warner Brothers has some big guns in its latest release of Westerns, including two films that came out in the same year, the ingratiating crowd-pleaser Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and its polar opposite, Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch. ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at The Age

Netflix (James Rocchi)

Time may have diminished the film's shock value, but time hasn't faded The Wild Bunch 's immense appeal. ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at Netflix (James Rocchi)

filmcritic.com (Chris Cabin)

the sign of change in the old formula, the advancement of technology and time in a genre that brutally snuffed both ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at filmcritic.com (Chris Cabin)

Doug Pratt's DVD Review

Sam Peckinpahâ��s 1969 masterpiece about bank robbers on the run in the Old West is greatly enhanced by the precision of the DVD transfer. The flashback sequences, for example, blend seamlessly with the rest of the movie and add to the emotional ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at Doug Pratt's DVD Review

At-A-Glance Film Reviews

The Wild Bunch, for starters, is an absorbing character study. In a broader sense, it's an account of the passing of an old, and in some twisted way honorable, code. The wild bunch is a gang of big time thieves. They steal from banks and trains and so ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at At-A-Glance Film Reviews

The Spinning Image (Daniel Auty)

In the dying West of 1913, a gang of ageing outlaws decide to make one last score before retiring. Led by Pike Bishop (William Holden) the group hold up a bank, but are tricked by Pikeâ��s former partner Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan) and escape only with ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at The Spinning Image (Daniel Auty)

DVDnett.no

Det er vanskelig Ã¥ skulle anmelde en film som Sam Peckinpahs The Wild Bunch. Man risikerer nemlig at alt man sier er blitt sagt fÃ¸r. Med mulig unntak for voldtektsscenen i Straw Dogs av samme regissÃ¸r , har nemlig ingen voldsscene fÃ¥tt fullt sÃ¥ mye ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at DVDnett.no

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

In an early scene of "The Wild Bunch," the bunch rides into town past a crowd of children who are gathered with excitement around their game. They have trapped a scorpion and are watching it being tortured by ants. The eyes of Pike (William Holden), ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

DVD Verdict (Ryan Keefer) - Director's Cut

"We're not gonna get rid of anybody. We're gonna stick together, just like it used to be. When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal, you're finished. We're finished. All of ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at DVD Verdict (Ryan Keefer) - Director's Cut

DVD Town (John J. Puccio)

It has been said that director Sam Peckinpah glorified violence in his films and romanticized killing. There is no denying that fact, but in "The Wild Bunch" there is much more. "The Wild Bunch" is a quintessential modern, even postmodern, ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at DVD Town (John J. Puccio)

DVDTown (John J. Puccio)

DVD Savant (Glenn Erickson)

Would you give someone guns to kill your mother, or your ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at DVD Savant (Glenn Erickson)

Doug Pratt's Laserdisc Review

Anarchy is the prevalent theme in Sam Peckinpah's rule-breaking The Wild Bunch. Although overly symbolic (the anarchy of aging, childhood, technology, dying, etc.), the film has a couple of outrageous gunfights and lengthy passages of sleepy, poignant ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at Doug Pratt's Laserdisc Review

BeyondHollywood.com

Here's the plot for "The Wild Bunch": Aging outlaws, led by William Holden and Ernest Borgnine, lives by their own sets of code, one of which is: Your word is your bond. When one of their own is released from prison in order to lead the manhunt for ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at BeyondHollywood.com

Eric Grossman

THE WILD BUNCH, Sam Peckinpah's magnum opus has returned to the big screen. The late William Holden stars as Pike Bishop, the leader of an aging gang of outlaws who are trying for their last big haul before they hang up their guns. When it came out ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at Eric Grossman

Dan Hartung

Sam Peckinpah is not around for this reissue, but his presence colors a wide swath of the action films made today, as this film makes clear. If you live near a major city and can go see this in the theater, you are in for a filmgoer's treat--certainly ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at Dan Hartung

Latin America on Screen

The bloody action in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch takes place either side of the US/Mexican border--and in one memorable scene, on a bridge directly on the border itself--as a new nation is being born to the South, and an old one is dying to the North. ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at Latin America on Screen

DVD Verdict (Mike Pinsky)

"We've got to start thinking beyond our guns. Those days are closing fast," announces Pike Bishop (William Holden), early in The Wild Bunch. Indeed, by 1969, the western had burned itself out as a genre. The glory days of John Ford were over. Even ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at DVD Verdict (Mike Pinsky)

Expanded Cinemah

San Rafael, sud degli Stati Uniti. 1914. Un gruppo di militari fa il suo o ingresso nella cittadina e si dirige direttamente alla stazione ferroviaria. Non sono militari ma banditi travestiti pronti a fare un colpo. In realtÃ anche il colpo non Ã¨ tale, ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at Expanded Cinemah

Steve Kong

Not being a huge fan of the Western genre I had only one reason to watch The Wild Bunch. The Wild Bunch director Sam Peckinpah is one the main influences of my favourite director John Woo. I was not expecting much from this western. Lets just say that by ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at Steve Kong

Film Court (Lawrence Russell)

This film certainly caused a stir when it came out in 1969 at the height of the Viet Nam war and for twenty years it looked as if it was "the last Western" as Hollywood closed down the genre in favour of the urban gun drama. The retinal level of ...read the complete Wild Bunch movie review at Film Court (Lawrence Russell)

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