The Wild Bunch - 1969 - 7/10
“If they move, kill ’em.” With that opening line, the theater erupted.
This was one of those rare occasions when film and audience were perfectly matched. When we arrived, the theater parking lot was packed with 300-500 motorcycles. Half the audience were bikers.
End of an era finds the once Wild West setting into the sunset.
The gang’s last big haul is a fiasco, and the survivors hightail it to Mexico.
There, they make a deal with a brutal generalissimo.
Extremely violent Western, elegiac in tone, poignant moments broken with splatter.