Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 2
Recreating the essence of his iconic Man With No Name in a post-Civil War Western, director Clint Eastwood delivered the first of his great revisionist works of the genre.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 2
Recreating the essence of his iconic Man With No Name in a post-Civil War Western, director Clint Eastwood delivered the first of his great revisionist works of the genre.
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Clint Eastwood's fifth film as a director and eighth Western as a star (ninth if you count Paint Your Wagon), The Outlaw Josey Wales chronicles the hero's violent journey westward after the Civil War. With fresh memoris of his family's slaughter by Red Leg soldier Terrill (Bill McKinney), Confederate Josey Wales (Eastwood) refuses to join his captain Fletcher (John Vernon) and the rest of his comrades in surrender to a U.S. Army regiment. Deemed a dangerous outlaw after a bloody one-man battle
Mar 30, 1999
Warner Home Video
All Critics (35) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (2) | DVD (22)
All in all, a very creditable film.
The screenplay is another one of those violence revues, with carnage production numbers slotted every so often.
[Eastwood] gets to the heart of the matter briskly, orchestrates his confrontations intelligently and gets off without lingering unduly over the resultant ugliness.
Eastwood is such a taciturn and action-oriented performer that it's easy to overlook the fact that he directs many of his movies -- and many of the best, most intelligent ones.
A soggy attempt at a post-Civil War western epic.
The remnants of war are fractious and far-flung in Clint Eastwood's impressive revisionist western, which looks as good as it ever will thanks to Warner Home Video.
An important movie in the maturation of Clint Eastwood as both actor and director.
Though the story is pat...there's pleasure to be had in the memorable one-liners, the irreverent humor...and the Western action against the backdrop of frontier scenery. [Blu-ray]
It's a powerful, revisionist, revenge Western with many unique touches.
An underrated early directorial effort by Clint Eastwood.
An epic journey to redemption, set against a riveting portrait of a battered country.
Fun western character study
Demonstrated Eastwood's ability to recreate his first starring role, as the mythic Man with No Name of the Italian Westerns, and to subtly undercut it through comedy and mockery.
Eastwood whups 'em again
One of Eastwood's earliest 5-star Western classics.
A top-notch Western.
Eastwood's brooding, bloody masterpiece.
Clint Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales is a near flawless Western with a great cast of actors. Directed by Clint Eastwood who also plays the lead role of Josey Wales, This is a classic Western that is packed with effective story telling, good action, memorable characters and above all, great directing. I very much
December 18, 2011
Super Reviewer
A typical horse opera with Eastwood as the stranger you better not mess with, only different, yea charged, with the blithe spirit of Chief Dan George as the unlikely second banana, who manages to lift the usual proceedings single-handedly into 4 star territory.
July 22, 2007Super Reviewer
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