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Joe Kidd

1972

John Sturges

Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon, Don Stroud ...

6.0

3,121

Western Joe Kidd (Eastwood) comes in 1900 to the New Mexican town of Sinola, where Luis Chama (Saxon) is leading the local Mexican-Americans in a protest against the illegal acquisition of their land. Joe Kidd, in jail after a drunken spree, watches as Chama's crowd, enraged by the judge (Carter) who refuses to listen to their woes, steals the forged land grants from the courthouse and sets them on fire. The rebels are about to kidnap the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"John Sturges' direction is sufficiently compelling to keep guns popping and bodies falling."	POS
United States	The New York Times	"Nothing remarkable, but modestly decent—a feeling that persists, with continually diminishing assurance, almost until the climax, when everything is thrown away in a flash of false theatrics"	NEU
United States	Nick Schager AV Club	"Not particularly complicated, and sometimes as confused as it is concise, 1972’s Joe Kidd is nonetheless a lean, reasonably satisfying slice of Clint Eastwood outlaw badassery."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The photography is undeniably beautiful, but there comes a point when we've had too many mountains and too little plot (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	TV Guide	"Bad editing, uninspired direction, and a script that teetered precariously on the verge of parodying a John Wayne movie combined to make Joe Kidd nothing more than a plodding shoot-em-up."	NEG
United Kingdom	Time Out	"A curiously strangled Western which can't make up its mind whether it wants to wring straight action out of the range war between poor Mexicans and a tycoon rancher"	NEU

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