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Rio Bravo (1959)

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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 0

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Featuring Carlos Gallardo, star of Robert Rodriguez's cult-classic debut El Mariachi, Bravo is a tense action thriller about a musician struggling to stop a criminal rebellion. Gallardo is Carlos Bravo, a mariachi who was once a dedicated government agent. When the Mexican president is kidnapped by a group led by an evil and powerful drug lord, the guitar player must conjure up his heroic past to save the day. Throwing an additional wrench in the gears is the fact that Bravo is dating the

Unrated, 1 hr. 25 min.

Western, Action & Adventure, Classics

May 8, 2001

Xenon

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All Critics (35) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (36) | Rotten (0) | DVD (14)

Wayne, of course, walks off with the show -- not by doing anything in particular, but simply by being what he is: at 51, still one of the most believable he-men in Hollywood.

April 27, 2009 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment
TIME Magazine
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Rio Bravo is a big, brawling western.

May 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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Howard Hawks's finest western (1959), and perhaps his finest film.

May 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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Despite its slickness, virility, occasional humor and, if it may be repeated, authentic professional approach, it is well-made but awfully familiar fare.

March 25, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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A comic western that ambles through its two hours and 21 minutes, it always has time to pause for a joke, a song or banter among the characters.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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[VIDEO] "Rio Bravo" (1959) is Howard Hawkes's shamelessly commercial Western.

August 29, 2011 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

If Only Angels Have Wings is the foremost masterwork of the director's early period, Rio Bravo is that of the later, even more genial years.

May 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Parallax View | Comment
Parallax View

Classic Western with superb story telling.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Classic Film and Television | Comment
Classic Film and Television

Texecution is superb in every department, making this one of the classics of the genre

February 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

A lengthy, leisurely paced film.

May 13, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Faultless, freewheeling-and very funny.

May 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Flawlessly cast, complex, amusing and exciting, the film integrates multi-layered themes into a unified and satisfying whole.

May 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

...notable for its main characters' amusing interplay, camaraderie, and male bonding. (HD-DVD Edition)

June 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Although Rio Bravo rather ambles along, it still has enough good points to make it a genial viewing experience.

May 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Rio Bravo may not be a perfect film, but it's close enough as to not matter.

May 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

... one Hawks' greatest films, perhaps his masterpiece, and one of the finest westerns of all time.

May 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Turner Classic Movies Online | Comment
Turner Classic Movies Online

No matter what you think of Zinnemann's High Noon (I'm mixed), it's directly responsible for the making of Hawks' most entertaining and classic Western, which displays all of his thematic concerns, such as the emergence of an intimate male camaraderie

August 16, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

Arguably Hawks' greatest film.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Rio Bravo

An entertaining classic - full review coming soon!

July 9, 2010
danperry17

Super Reviewer

John T. Chance: You want that gun, pick it up. I wish you would. "You've seen nothing like 'em together... and in the heat and hate of Rio Bravo nothing can tear 'em apart!"Rio Bravo is a film that defines the Western genre, maybe more than any other does. It has everything that the makes the genre great. It has tough

January 1, 2012
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Melvin White

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