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Rio Lobo

1970

Howard Hawks

John Wayne, Jennifer O'Neill, Jorge Rivero, Jack Elam ...

7.0

4,560

Western. Adventure. Romance After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.

	Author	Review
United States	TV Guide	"Only the performance of Elam remains lively, but it is the type of characterization he has done dozens of times. A sad finale to Hawks's magnificent career."	NEG
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"If it lacks the formal perfection of Rio Bravo and the moving elegy for men grown old of El Dorado, it's still a marvellous film"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"While no Hawks movie can be considered a total loss, this reductive replay of Rio Bravo and El Dorado is too peevish to qualify as tragic, and only occasionally funny."	NEU
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"'Rio Lobo' is the sort of western that John Wayne and producer-director Howard Hawks do in their sleep. But by no stretch of nostalgia does it match such previous Wayne-Hawks epics"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The story itself doesn't matter much. We go to a classic John Wayne Western not to see anything new, but to see the old done again, done well (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Fairly routine western makes a disappointing swansong for Hawks. Still good fun though, if you like this kind of thing. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Jay Cocks Time	"There are a few good scenes—an intricately executed train wreck, for example—but the movie is notably slack where it should be zestful."	NEU

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