Going by the reviews, people either really hate this movie, or really love it.
Obviously I'm in the former camp.
The gratuitous violence I am actually all for. I don't watch Westerns with the idea of putting on "Kumbaya" on the radio in the background.
On that level, the movie delivers but in bursts too short between long boring sequences where the movie tries to be far more intelliigent than it is.
The romance plot is completely and utterly insane and non-sensical, even accounting for the abusive husband trope, the idea that the kidnap victim develops some kind of extreme version of Stockholm Syndrome by virtue of the "protagonist" having a magic peen is lazy and terrible even for the 70s.
This could be forgiven if it was a minor sub-plot but it's 70% of the movie.
It easily could have been a classic if it either dove deeper into an actual plot that makes sense with characters you could remotely empathise with, or if it instead went 30 minutes shorter and cut out the idiotic romance plot.
The cast all do an amazing job. I'm surprised they could shoot this without laughing at their own dialogue let alone actually give solid performances.
Definitely one to have on the telly whilst doing something else at the same time.
Obviously I'm in the former camp.
The gratuitous violence I am actually all for. I don't watch Westerns with the idea of putting on "Kumbaya" on the radio in the background.
On that level, the movie delivers but in bursts too short between long boring sequences where the movie tries to be far more intelliigent than it is.
The romance plot is completely and utterly insane and non-sensical, even accounting for the abusive husband trope, the idea that the kidnap victim develops some kind of extreme version of Stockholm Syndrome by virtue of the "protagonist" having a magic peen is lazy and terrible even for the 70s.
This could be forgiven if it was a minor sub-plot but it's 70% of the movie.
It easily could have been a classic if it either dove deeper into an actual plot that makes sense with characters you could remotely empathise with, or if it instead went 30 minutes shorter and cut out the idiotic romance plot.
The cast all do an amazing job. I'm surprised they could shoot this without laughing at their own dialogue let alone actually give solid performances.
Definitely one to have on the telly whilst doing something else at the same time.