The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid Reviews

[The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid] may be a valiant attempt but fails to come off.

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Interesting for its demonstration of how exploitative capitalism leads simple-minded farmers' boys into outlawry, though somewhat marred by Duvall's manic interpretation of the role of Jesse James.

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Kaufman's own script never gels and the whole exercise, admirable as it is and enlivened by quirky decidedly unwestern like humour, fails to make much dramatic impact.

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A Preston Sturgesian portrait of myth

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For all its flaws, The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid is the kind of first movie so rich in texture and invention that we can look forward to a lot more from Philip Kaufman.

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| Original Score: B

A lovely, odd sort of middle Western. That is, it's neither conventional Western fiction nor completely documented fact, although it makes full use of history and is as crammed with the artifacts of 19th-century America.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

An offbeat, ragged but totally absorbing Western.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4