Navajo Joe
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Movie Reviews of Navajo Joe
Movie Review: No extra features, but you'll live
Summary: 5 Stars
I just bought the DVD today, great presentation. Picture looks great, anamorphic widescreen, pretty much what the fans have been waiting for. It's pretty cheap, too. Would've been nice to see some special features. I would've enjoyed seeing maybe a new interview with Burt Reynolds, maybe see his thoughts today on the film. I have gained a greater appreciation for the film. This is a much better presentation than that pan and scanned version present in the Wild West Box set. If you're a fan of Burt Reynolds, Sergio Corbucci, westerns, spaghetti westerns, or anything that applies to this film, buy it! You will not regret it.Movie Review: Navajo Joe Momma
Summary: 4 Stars
Here's one for CB:
Navajo Joe is one of the lesser talked about Sergio Corbucci films. Though a good movie, it is a easy to see why it's never mentioned alongside Django, Companeros or The Great Silence. It does seem a bit more like a Hollywoodized project, as though Corbucci didn't have as much input as usual, and was more or less along for the ride.
In the movie, Joe is hell bent(for leather!) for revenge against a murderous gang that kills a bunch of Native Americans(including Joe's woman). He gets a good opportunity to stick it to them when a small town asks for his help in defending them from the evil gang, which is coming to town to get a large stash of cash. It's the typical spaghetti western kind of plot. Joe is very much the type of character you'd expect from the genre-A cool, calm badazz who doesn't talk much, takes no crap and whoops butt. The few Native American characters are played by obvious white folks with darkened skin to make them look "native", but this was quite common at the time. I'm not sure how easy it is to buy Burt Reynolds as a Navajo warrior, but it's easy enough to at least buy him as a western hero.
Navajo Joe is a good time if you dig them spaghetti westerns, and you should!! After all, you're not a commie, are ya?
Thanks to CLINT for reminding me.
Movie Review: Finally
Summary: 4 Stars
Navajo Joe suffers from mediocre makeup effects and below average scenery, but it makes up in story intensity, drama and most of all music. Morricone's score gives you goosebumps and it makes the movie so much more emotional. The reason why people are longing to see this movie on DVD, is that it is a quintessential Spaghetti Western, one of the must see films of the genre, with the music so popular, the star so famous and the finale so memorable, it is a wonder MGM hasn't released this one years ago (this is a copy of my review I wrote at the Spaghetti Western Database, swdb.info)Movie Review: IF NOT FOR BURT REYNOLDS . . . . .
Summary: 3 Stars
I read many westerns and watch western movies, but if not for Burt Reynolds the picture NAVAJO JOE would not be too good. The much younger, thinner, and athletic Reynolds is in his prime in this feature.
Though some reviewers rave about the musical score, it mostly intrudes and got on my nerves: if one enjoys near screams and yelps then it will not doubt please, but for my ears it was mostly an irritation and offered no suspense I can recall.
The scenery is visually extraordinary, and as this is a Spanish-Italian production, as typical of many westerns of the time, it was probably shot in Spain. The horses are sensational and the western town mockups are pretty realistic. But other than Burt Reynolds most of the western characters on screen do not have a true western feel about them. One real problem for western fans: though the train is very nice and visually pleasing, it is of wide gauge track not the narrow gauge one would expect in the American west. And the design of the locomotive is not one that would have been seen in the American west.
In the main, I am not much of a spaghetti western fan, and generally have to tolerate even the best Clint Eastwood venture, however, TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA, SHALAKO, DUEL AT DIABLO, JOE KIDD, BREAKHEART PASS, and ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, are all foreign movies I adoringly watch over and over.
Since this movie, NAVAJO JOE, has become something of a cult favorite many people will watch it. I think it provides good entertainment and is worth seeing, just don't pay too much attention to the make up or the lips of the actors.
Best in westerns, pards.
Semper Fi.
Movie Review: Silliest Movie of the west
Summary: 1 Stars
Absolutely a stupid movie. Shoots all his ammo up in the last scene in a Rifleman like firing. Tosses his gun away to walk over to a tomahawk, never checking the murderous villain for a hidden gun. Gives himself up when it is certain death with the old I will shoot the girl bit.