Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Myron Clemons
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Leoni Haney
Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
Marva-nova
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
shakercoola
Chief among the criticisms of the film in the past was that it doesn't own up to being a Western. In fairness, by 1969 many films were beginning to cross genre boundaries. It occupies an area between dramatic action and comedy, but not action-comedy. It doesn't excel at either genre but for sheer entertainment and the handsome central performances from two handsome actors, and their great chemistry too, it makes up for any shortcomings. The cinematography is sumptuous with brilliant use of colour and shade to evoke feeling. The locations are magnificent. The editing, however, cause us a problem. The chase by the posse was overlong and the film drops into a ravine by the second act as a result, struggling to recover what it promised. All in all, very watchable stuff.
grantss
Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of the Hole In The Wall Gang, a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong the find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heals. Their solution - escape to Bolivia!Superb movie. While having the appearances of a western it's more than that. Quite funny and many of the themes could have played out in any era. If anything, it captures the end of the old Wild West.Great performances by Paul Newman and Robert Redford in the lead roles. So good was the Newman-Redford combination that, four years later, director George Roy Hill reunited them for another of his movies, The Sting.
FilmBuff1994
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a great movie with a very well developed plot and a terrific cast. It is a very enjoyable, edge of your seat western that reels you in almost immediately and engages you from beginning to end. It is vastly entertaining, as any typical western is, but with some great twists and turns throughout. It was a little slow moving at times and there were several moments where I found myself anxiously waiting for things to move forward. There are several dialogue heavy scenes that become monotonous to watch, as we are merely waiting for gunfire to break loose. Paul Newman and Robert Redford are absolutely phenomenal in their respective roles here, Newman is charming and convincing as the experienced one, while Redford fits in perfectly as the naive young one that thinks he knows everything. Their unique back and forth was without a doubt the highlight of the film.Well acted fun. Great performances and an inspired story, I would recommend Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to anyone looking for a good drama or western.
Two bank robbers are on the run when the law gets close to them.
Best Performance: Robert Redford
aquauver
It's comedy.They escape from the enemy,police and their harsh life.It represents how bad the life is.Hit and Run is their tactics,so it is easy to spend the life.Their curse is lovely and so funny.I can hear it all the day.Even in the end, they are cursing each other about small things,what it would be like or what we would do afterwords confronting to serious situation.
