The Missouri Breaks
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Movie Reviews of The Missouri Breaks
Movie Review: A gritty, realistic, somewhat flawed film...
Summary: 3 Stars
The Missouri Breaks is a film that teeter-totters between being an excellent example of the gritty and realistic western genre and a film that appears to be reaching, ultimately failing, to achieve greatness.
Much in the same vein as Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, the Missouri Breaks does an excellent job of portraying the day to day hard bitten, dust eating. the interplay between Jack Nicholson and his band of truly unforgettable fellow horse thieves, as they attempt to scratch out some time of living is the high point of this film.
I seriously wonder if Marlon Brandon wasn't suffering an emotional breakdown during the filming of this movie..his character, the sadistic "regulator", appears to be bouncing between many different roles...it is as though brando couldn't agree with himself as to how to play this character. If you are going to disguise yourself as a woman, why do it in the dead of night when no one can see you?... colonel kurtz and the regulator!
the music is very disappointing, appearing to emulate ennio morricone's "spaghetti western" themes (a fistful of dynamite, my name is nobody, ect..) but failing... the composer couldn't decide if this was a comedy or a serious movie.
still and all, an excellent film.
Movie Review: Slow Breaks
Summary: 3 Stars
I give the makers of this film credit for attempting a literate and ambitious western, however, the pacing of this film is so meandering that it caused me to drift off on occasion. The basic premise of a horse baron hiring a sadistic regulator to rid himself of pesky horse thieves is a good one, however,it fails in execution. I have nothing against films that deliberately pace themselves but Arthur Penn's direction here is downright snooze inducing. Even Marlon Brando's method account as the regulator, though amusing at times, cannot save the picture. Jack Nicholson gives a solid turn here as the horse thief but there's nothing special about his performance. The promised sparks between Brando and Nicholson don't even materialize with the possible exception of a bathroom confrontation. The final showdown between these two is a bit of a fizzle. Speaking of duds, Nicholson's romantic interest in the film, Kathleen Lloyd, has to be one of the most wooden actresses ever cast in a major motion picture. There's more kinetic energy between Nicholson and one of the horses than there is with Lloyd.Movie Review: Foul Mouthed Western
Summary: 2 Stars
I don't know who gave this movie a PG rating, but they sure missed the mark. In short, if you do not like taking the Lord's name in vain, and coarse language in general, don't waste your time on this movie. It, also, is nothing like the old Westerns where the good guy was good and the bad guy was bad. In this movie, it seems that every one is bad, or willing to ignore morality when it would seem to benefit them at the moment. So much for honesty, character, valor, chivalry or any other virtues; they don't seem to be of concern in this movie.