Flawless, powerful, fantastic, this piece of jewellery is the turn of the western history, the transition movie between the old western, and the new one; the link between the American and Spaghetti western. There is a before WILD BUNCH and an after WILD BUNCH. So many directors have been inspired by this terrific piece of work, the best of Peckinpah and also not the most amputated, unlike MAJOR DUNDEE or PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID. Characters are so poignant, fightng in a combat lost in advance, in this so magnificently filmed and edited gold nugget. I don't even speak of the climax, the most brutal gunfight ever filmed in the movie history, so brilliant, jawdropping sequence, where the audiences are stuck to their seats, grabbed to their armrests watching those fantastic characters at last fighting their gloomy, tragic fate. We suffer for them, we nearly weep for them, that's precisely the strength of this unavoidable movie. Among the best western ever made.
Review of The Wild Bunch
