It's one of those flawed, fascinating films that are somehow more intriguing than many a smooth-cheeked blockbuster.
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06/02/05
Major Dundee (1965)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:28
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.2/10
Theatrical Release:Apr 8, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: Sam Peckinpah's dramatic tale of the west, and of revenge. A group of men follow Major Dundee, a officer in the Union Cavalry, down to Mexico to recapture some children kidnapped by Apaches.... [More]
Starring: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Reviews for Major Dundee
Top CriticStill a mess of great scenes sprinkled among some fairly monotonous action. But it's never completely dull.
04/15/05
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04/23/05
No review available.
07/22/05
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05/24/03
Charlton Heston is the cavalry officer assigned to eliminate Apache resistance; Peckinpah makes a fine, ironic use of his stentorian presence in what becomes a very grubby context.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo true Peckinpah-lover should pass it by.
05/13/05
Top CriticIt's not a masterpiece, but its story of Civil War enemies banding together for battle against Indian warriors and French soldiers packs an occasional wallop.
04/14/05
It's an ode to the unstable, explosive force that was Sam Peckinpah, as well as to the powerful studio system that crushed him and kept him down.
09/23/05
Giddy-up, Western lovers. This one is worth the return engagement.
06/09/05
Top CriticNo review available.
06/17/05
At its best you can feel Peckinpah, at the twilight of the studio era, dreaming of a far wilder bunch.
04/06/05
Top CriticSam Peckinpah's crippled film plays best as a dry run for The Wild Bunch.
10/03/05
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06/18/05
The 12 minutes excised from the preview version have been recovered, and they go a long way toward clarifying some of the film's murkier passages.
04/14/05
No review available.
05/14/04
...it is still incomplete – permanently so, since crucial scenes were never even shot – and the seams show.
04/14/05
It's hard to imagine The Wild Bunch having the depth and grace it did without Peckinpah having this experience to draw on, and for that masterful film alone we're grateful to have Major Dundee back among the living again.
04/14/05
Top CriticThe movie still isn't great, but it's an important remonstration to that oldest of all studio-system curses: the producer who thinks he's more creative than the director.
04/08/05
Top CriticSam Peckinpah's famously butchered 1965 western, Major Dundee, has been returned to the big screen in a form that is closer to the director's original vision.
04/07/05
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