Joe Kidd (1972)
2/10
Joe Kidd
15 March 2010
Warning: Spoilers
As far as I have seen, the star of Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby hasn't done a bad film, that is until I saw this highly disappointing romp, from director John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Great Escape). Basically Joe Kidd (Clint Eastwood) is a former bounty hunter and tough guy in the American Southwest, and he is caught in between a battle for claims of the land. There are two sides in the argument, the Mexican side are led by charismatic Luis Chama (John Saxon), and the US side are led by wealthy landowner Frank Harlan (Robert Duvall). That's about all I can say that I understood in the plot, the rest was a combination of it being too confusing, and too boring. Also starring Don Stroud as Lamarr Simms, Stella Garcia as Helen Sanchez, James Wainwright as Olin Mingo, Paul Koslo as Roy Gannon and Gregory Walcott as Sinola County Sheriff Bob Mitchell. The only reasonably interesting moment was Clint driving a train of the end of the rail and crashing it through the saloon to knock some villains down, apart from that, I really don't think there's anything you will care about, it's a rubbish western. Pretty poor!
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