An endearing quality

Rating: 7/10 (22 February 1999)

Seems sort of corny by today's standards (think "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"), but a very enjoyable film nonetheless. Newman and Redford are lovable bad guys. They capitalize on the crooks-on-the-run-we'd-like-to-hang-out-with genre made popular a couple years earlier by "Bonnie and Clyde". Their witty, lighthearted banter in the face of doom gives them such an endearing quality. And Katharine Ross isn't hard to take, either. Love the bedroom/gunpoint scene.