Fun movie, not really an epic Western

Rating: 8/10 (28 February 2001)

I thought this was a fun movie (a solid 8 of 10) but I didn't get the feeling that it was a grand epic Western as some people say. The Burt Bacharach music was nice but a little bit corny in the context of this movie. The interlude with the old-style, sepia-toned photographs of their adventures in New York (while waiting for the ship to Bolivia) was well done. Redford & Newman did a great job with their characters but I didn't really care for anybody else in the movie and it was pretty much just their show.