Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Micitype Pretty Good

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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

johnathanfrost I love the western genre but out of all the American westerns I have seen this one is without a doubt one of Sam Peckinpah's best films. Its bloody violent but also a film about loyalty and trust.The way the director presents the films bloody shootouts is that he does not glorify them in any capacity and that is one of the films biggest strengths, but the best thing about the film is its cast.With stars like William Holden as the leader of the bunch, with Ernest Borgnine Edmond O'Brian, Ben Johnson, and many other incredible actors Whose performances are unforgettable and incredible and each actors plays of each other brilliantly . Sam Peckinpah in my opinion set the standard of how all westerns should strive to be.

areatw Yawn... It was a struggle to sit through this film - two and a half hours of nothing. The shootout is about as exciting as it gets, and even then it is incredibly dull and uninteresting.I honestly can't understand the 'classic' label that this Western has seemingly earned. I confess that I'm not a great fan of Westerns, but the others I've seen have at least been somewhat engaging - this one was just plain boring.Some people may love this sort of film, but it just wasn't my cup of tea. I could have watched paint dry for two and a half hours and found it just as interesting.

quinimdb "The Wild Bunch" starts with a scene that could rival the legendary "Once Upon A Time in the West" scene, and only gets better from there. The scene begins with a group of what seems to be soldiers strolling into a town on horses. The camera follows the soldiers around the town as we observe the setting along with them. We don't yet know why we're following them, but we know they're important. They run into an old lady, apologize, pick up her stuff for her, and continue to help her around. They seem like good people. They walk into a bank, and suddenly they grab the people in the bank, pull out their guns, and it cuts to William Holden as Pike Bishop as he says "If they move, kill them".A firefight ensues between them and bounty hunters hired by the town. By that scene I'm sure that you'd think they would be the bad guys, right? But as the film continues we learn they are actually just the lesser of many evils, and they never meant for any citizens to be killed. This grey morality of the film, as well as this scene, is only one of the many great parts of it.The film is not only a fantastic western, it's an ode to the dying era of the wild west, both historically and in film. There are many references to the evolving technology outside of the wild west, and the fact that the characters seem to be realizing that they can't keep on doing this forever, and they're getting pretty old. In one great scene Pike is reminded that he can't keep on doing this forever, but one of the members in his crew simply passes him the whiskey as they all take a swig and enjoy it while they can.The action scenes in this film use a technique used most recently in "Mad Max: Fury Road", in which there are frequent cuts, to show the fast pace and chaos of the firefights, but the action is always kept in the center of the frame, so the viewer's can always comprehend what's going on, and it uses this to great effect.The film has a great opening scene, and a great one in the middle involving a train, but the final scene is one of the greatest action scenes of all time. Beforehand, the men are in a whorehouse when Pike seems to be recalling his former girlfriend that was murdered. He sits there and seems to realize that he can't recreate what it was like back then, and he walks into the other room to find the other men equally as distracted. They decide to go out with a bang rather than a whimper as Pike says "Let's go". To which Lyle responds "Why not?".What follows that is one of the greatest endings to one of the greatest westerns of all time.

msmith-87318 Bill Holden is by far the star of this picture, he delivers and absolutely outstanding performance. Truly Legendary. Bill has for the most part of his career if not all of it played a laid back can't be bothered who cares what the hell type of character. The wild bunch is a film about some outlaws who are fully aware that their time has run out. When somebody says he knows somebody with a new fangled flying car they know their time has passed and the new world is not for them. The film is all about the value of a man's loyalty to his companions. If you find it hard to like a person you ride with your nothing more than an animal because at the end of the day all they have is the loyalty toward each other. The try to rescue one of their Mexican comrades but it just goes to show that those who live by the gun die by the gun. I will say some additional good performances by the support cast including O'Brien, Ryan, Borgnine, Oates and Johnson.