Average Rating: 8.4/10
Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 0
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Release Date: Jan 1, 1967 Wide
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Director Monte Hellman used his beloved "hunter as hunted" theme for his near-existential western The Shooting. Jack Nicholson and Warren Oates are starred in this bare-bones tale of an ex-bounty hunter (Oates) with a price on his head and the cocky young gun (Nicholson) who hopes to collect. The film seems to be exclusively populated by Life's Losers; but even with portents of doom throughout, the ending is still a jaw-dropping experience. Demonstrating the parsimony he'd learned while working
PG-13, 1 hr. 22 min.
Jan 1, 1967 Wide
Nov 30, 2004
VCI
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What is most intriguing about "The Shooting" is the constant sense of undefined menace throughout.
One of my favorite Westerns.
If there ever was an existential Western, this one is it.
Doesn't ask to be taken as an existentialist mechanism per say, though it certainly functions as one.
An all-time great "B" Western with metaphysical undertones.
The film's ending is a favorite amongst cultists and it acts as the paradigm of Camus' thinking: stoic, but humane, and advocating nature over violence.
A very unique movie, it's really basic and dreamy. It feels more like an acid trip than an actual movie, the camera never moves toward the focus of the scene but wherever it feels like going. For the very little dialogue and character development it has, Warren Oates and Jack Nicholson manage to have some very
June 28, 2010Super Reviewer
Peculiar Western...existential, indeed. Millie Perkins sure was beautiful, but I think she's out of her depth as an actress here.
March 17, 2008Super Reviewer
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