Possibly the finest western ever made!

Rating: 10/10 (17 September 2006)

I think this film is possibly the finest western ever made. Or at least the best action western. Maybe westerns shouldn't really be lumped together but evaluated separately. Many might feel Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid shouldn't be considered superior to an important work like The Ox-Bow Incident so that's why I decided to distinguish this Newman and Redford movie as an action western. Enjoyable "feel good" films like this should be judged by entirely different standards than works like Ox-Bow or Little Big Man, etc.
This movie pretty much sets the standard for visual realizations of the mythology of American western outlaws. It's very difficult to identify a single wrong move in this terrific film. It's nice escapism even though we know in real life that outlaws are never this handsome and charming and essentially harmless.