Villa Rides
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Movie Reviews of Villa Rides
Movie Review: Villa Rides - Mitchum, Bronson, Brynner
Summary: 4 Stars
I hadn't seen this for at least 20 years, and was surprised by some of the dialog that I thought was weak and under-directed, more like a low-budget movie. Nonetheless, I enjoyed this film, since it's not only a good adventure, but does have many treasurable scenes:
"Come on Gringo." - Mitchum: "Who, me?" - "Do you see any other Gringos around here?"
Villa: "What is in your heart, Gringo? - (Removes money bag) - This is your heart!"
(Scene where Villa marries a rape victim)
Female love interest: "Villa is a good man." - Mitchum: "Am I a good man?" - She: "Yes." - Mitchum: "Well, I'm as good a man as Villa, and that doesn't say much for either of us."
All in all, very enjoyable, but less than top-notch production and direction.
Movie Review: pre-wild bunch PECKINPAH
Summary: 4 Stars
Sam Peckinpah wrote the script---star Yul Brynner didn't like that his role, Villa, wasn't a hero, so, "Bonnie and Clyde" ghost-writer Robert Towne was brought in for a re-write.
It's basically a more conventional "Wild Bunch;" instead of Edmund O Brian at one point talking about planes existing, it's Robert Mitchum landing a plane amid some Mexican soldiers in the opening scene.
Villa Rides would have been more like The Wild Bunch if Peckinpah had been director.
Villa Rides is certainly more fun to watch than The Wild Bunch.
Unfortunately, Jill Ireland is even in this 1960s Charles Bronson movie!
Worth buying to compare to "The Wild Bunch."
Movie Review: No classic but a sporadically spectacular time-filler
Summary: 3 Stars
Villa Rides is one of those films that's disliked not for what it is but what it isn't. It isn't the script that Sam Peckinpah wrote while trying to work his way out of directorial exile - Yul Brynner found Peckinpah's vision of Pancho Villa's cruelty too unsympathetic for his ego - and it isn't that much the version that Robert Towne rewrote either. But taken on its own terms, it's a decent south of the border oater that sees Robert Mitchum's gunrunning aviator first a prisoner and then a reluctant ally of Yul Brynner's Villa in the early, less successful days of his revolutionary career. Of course, even with hair casting Brynner as Villa in the first place is a bit like casting Jeff Goldblum as Fatty Arbuckle (Herbert Lom's General Huerte is no lookalike either, though he wouldn't be out of place as a Bond villain), but as long as you're willing to overlook little things like historical accuracy, it offers some spectacular battle scenes and enough efficient action to pass muster for a couple of hours. It's also of note for introducing Charles Bronson to his trademark Zapata moustache (and unfortunately his first co-starring role with Jill Ireland) as a Villista who likes shooting prisoners and for a great Maurice Jarre score that's long overdue for a CD release. And Peckinpah did at least get the chance to put all that research he did to good use when he took a trip down south of the border with William Holden, Robert Ryan and the rest of the Bunch...
No extras, but an acceptable 2.35:1 widescreen transfer.
Movie Review: villa rides
Summary: 3 Stars
a good film, a bit expencive, the dvd is empty, they could have done better with some leafletMovie Review: Great cast, but, great movie?
Summary: 1 Stars
One would think that with a cast like this it couldn't miss. But, what a turkey. "Plan 9 from Outerspace," may be the only movie that I've seen that is worse. Actually, "Plan 9," may be a better movie.
What a waste of the talents of Yul Brenner, Robert Mitchem, Charles Bronson, and Herbert Lom.
Pretty sad...