There are two Peckinpah Movies almost everybody knows and seems to like. The Wild Bunch and The Getaway. The first one is truly one of the greatest movies in history, whilst the latter is... good. Some of the sequences are really excellent, the camera works well, the story is not new but fairly interesting. The biggest problem of the film is it´s cast. McQueen is o.k., but no Eastwood or Coburn and McGraw was truly not the best actress around. Al Lettieri is terrible as the main villain of the movie. Peckinpahs stock actors Ben Johnson and Slim Pickens are good as always, but Johnson dies too early and Pickens just shows up for a short dialouge. Apart from that there aren´t any other flaws, except that Peckinpah made some better movies. 7/10
Review of The Getaway
