The Electric Horseman
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Movie Reviews of The Electric Horseman
Movie Review: A REDFORD CLASSIC
Summary: 5 Stars
In THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN Robert Redford plays Sonny Steele, an aging all-around champion rodeo cowboy who, as the result of numerous injuries and losing step with rodeo, has lost his vision and become a corporate spokesman for a cereal company. He somehow puts up with a lifestyle that, while making him rich beyond his dreams, has reduced him to nothing more than a poster boy. When Steele discovers that the company has purchased a classic racehorse, Rising Star, and is determined to do the same thing to the horse as they have done to him, doping it up and dragging it down in the process, he decides to save the horse's dignity and in the process saves himself as well. Redford's performance is wonderful and spontaneous. Jane Fonda shines as a TV reporter bent on getting a story at any cost and in the end gets the cowboy too. Together Redford and Fonda pack the screen with a chemistry that quite literally mesmerizes every viewer.
Willie Nelson is terrific as a Steele handler and contributes with some of his best musical offerings and look for an early Wilford Brimley cameo.
Buy this one for the soundtrack alone. I keep hoping that one of these days Willie Nelson fans and lovers of the classic western harmonica tracks in this one will stage some sort of a revolt to get it released. Until then the movie's the next best thing.
Douglas McAllister
Movie Review: My Heroes have always been Cowboys
Summary: 5 Stars
Oh I had forgotten how much I loved all the performances in this film and Willie Nelson singing. The script is terrific and Robert Redford is definitely at his best in this film (as he is in Butch and Sundance.) When he is not playing a pretty boy, Redford really shows his acting chops. Seeing Fonda and Redford together in their prime (vs. Barefoot in the Park when they were young) is fantastic. Redford did all of his riding stunts and actually rode the horse through a casino with all its customers. Redford bought Rising Star after filming was over and owned the horse until Rising Star passed away 18 years later. Director Sydney Pollack is the voice you hear as Hallie's boss Les on the phone. You can find the Willie Nelson songs - Midnight Rider, My Heroes have always been Cowboys, and Mama don't let your Babies grow up to be Cowboys on the CD Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be) by Willie Nelson - for under $10. Only get the soundtrack if you are dying for the disco music.Movie Review: One of the great, unsung romantic westerns of all time...
Summary: 5 Stars
I have always loved this film. It is a great and moving story, funny and filled with wonderful actors and involving action. Scenery is great, music too. But Fonda and Redford, and the horse, each as beautiful as they will ever be I think, all captivate in this movie. (Brimley and Willie Nelson are great though too.) It is a story about man against the heartless machinery of the modern world, but told in a down-to-earth, interesting way, that ends in triumph over adversity; and it is full of oddly moving scenes (like when Fonda and Redford and the horse are escaping over country at night and begin singing "America the Beautiful" against a backdrop of the dramatic Western mountains) that stay with you. And you can see that Fonda really is smitten with Redford, though he remains the in-charge hero (albeit a handsome devil as well). I own two copies of this film, consider it a classic and watch it every year or so. Never gets old.Movie Review: One of my favorite movies
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my comfort movies - something I watch over and over again because it leaves me with a warm feeling inside. It's a western set in contemporary times, complete with horses, cowboy hats, and plain-speaking folks who say "yup" and "shucks." The characters are charming. Redford has never looked sexier - the man was built for blue jeans - and Jane Fonda is the perfect match for him. The scenery is gorgeous, including Redford's sweet blue eyes and magnificent chest. My only complaint is he should have taken his shirt off a few more times.Movie Review: WITHOUT "MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COWBOYS" IT IS JUST NOT THE SAME
Summary: 5 Stars
This version of the movie was RUINED by someone in a suit in a high tower office who doesn't know anything about movies. I hope he's been fired by now. I've been devistated since the change, and until I just read these other reviews, I didn't know where to get a copy of the original, other than the Beta tape I taped off television the first time it aired.
The opening takes my breath away every time.
And WHY don't they offer it in TRUE STEREO? I am sure I saw it in stereo in the theater.