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a dated political corporate satire
this story of a runaway show cowboy and a hardtalking journalist who covers his story about exploitation of animals is trite and too melodramatic ,it has weirdly familiar lines and the fonda -redford romance is very irritating in a serious drama about corporate corruption .
the long sermons do not help and the villains are so black and the hero such a paragon of virtue,neither does all that chasing in the prairies with the sharp nailed journo going mushy with all that jazz and romantic camp fires ,
it does have an interesting premise and the acting is good in patches with some good cinematography but the political message is not of any significance today as it has been done to death .
interesting but rather a mediocre effort for pollack as he is usually much better than this ,it banks too much on the romance between the leads which becomes very distracting .
this story of a runaway show cowboy and a hardtalking journalist who covers his story about exploitation of animals is trite and too melodramatic ,it has weirdly familiar lines and the fonda -redford romance is very irritating in a serious drama about corporate corruption .
the long sermons do not help and the villains are so black and the hero such a paragon of virtue,neither does all that chasing in the prairies with the sharp nailed journo going mushy with all that jazz and romantic camp fires ,
it does have an interesting premise and the acting is good in patches with some good cinematography but the political message is not of any significance today as it has been done to death .
interesting but rather a mediocre effort for pollack as he is usually much better than this ,it banks too much on the romance between the leads which becomes very distracting .
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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washed up rodeo star and beautiful news hack, meet and have stormy time. Theres a fantastic horse chase, visual images of the horse covered in light bulbs, and some awsome scenery too.
It a moral tale and just good eye candy for the lovely Robert Redford and lovely Jane Fonda.
It a moral tale and just good eye candy for the lovely Robert Redford and lovely Jane Fonda.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Jane Fonda used to be a decent actress before she got into all that fitness stuff. In this film she is as thin as a rake and looks as if a few sausage sandwiches would do her the world of good. It appears as if at the age of nearly forty she was trying to stave off the movie stars sin of getting old. Fonda tries to reignite the chemistry she had with Robert Redford 12 years earlier in "Barefoot in the Park", but doesn't quite match it. The relationship looked at if it needed a bucketload of firelighters to get it going, not that this mattered too much in the grand scheme of things. Redford and Fonda started their feature film careers together in the now forgotten film "Tall Story", where Fonda was leading lady and Redford an uncredited basketball player. They also acted together alongside mumbling legend Marlon Brando in "The Chase". Time to try their luck again!
Robert Redford stars as Sonny Steele a washed up alcoholic ex world champion rodeo star, who is now reduced to advertising breakfast cereal. But Sonny is not a happy bunny, and decides to rage against cynical corporate abuse by making off with a doped up astronomically expensive race horse from Caesars Palace, like you do. He then races away into the Utah wilds, chased by a whole passel of policemen, where he plans to set the horse free with wild mustangs to sire lots of little Usain Bolt mustangs. Lovely idea but nobody seems to have told Sonny what a hard life those wild mustangs lead. Just the sort of story to appeal to Hanoi Jane and Robert Redford who loves Utah, and so it came to pass.
Pollack and Redford had already collaborated on a few films including the excellent "Jeremiah Johnson" also filmed in the Utah wilds and one of Redford's favourite films. The film is very similar to David Miller's contemporary western "Lonely are the Brave"(62), another protest movie where an anochronistic cowboy rides away from pursuing police. In this film the horse is metaphoric for the man. Broken down, abused and exploited they help each other to escape the suffocating shackles. Whilst not as good as the earlier film it's simple message is entertaining enough, and must have appealed to American audiences where it was a box office success. The magisterial Utah wilds tend to outshine the on screen romance, and the film has a nice feelgood atmosphere. Willie Nelson makes an appearance and adds significantly to the sountrack by warbling five songs including "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" and "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys". The romantic cowboy of the open range is not a man to be exploited. He is the good guy who rights all wrongs and rides off into the sunset. He is in short the American dream! Not an icon to mess with! A generous four stars because it kept me happy during it's longish running time.
Robert Redford stars as Sonny Steele a washed up alcoholic ex world champion rodeo star, who is now reduced to advertising breakfast cereal. But Sonny is not a happy bunny, and decides to rage against cynical corporate abuse by making off with a doped up astronomically expensive race horse from Caesars Palace, like you do. He then races away into the Utah wilds, chased by a whole passel of policemen, where he plans to set the horse free with wild mustangs to sire lots of little Usain Bolt mustangs. Lovely idea but nobody seems to have told Sonny what a hard life those wild mustangs lead. Just the sort of story to appeal to Hanoi Jane and Robert Redford who loves Utah, and so it came to pass.
Pollack and Redford had already collaborated on a few films including the excellent "Jeremiah Johnson" also filmed in the Utah wilds and one of Redford's favourite films. The film is very similar to David Miller's contemporary western "Lonely are the Brave"(62), another protest movie where an anochronistic cowboy rides away from pursuing police. In this film the horse is metaphoric for the man. Broken down, abused and exploited they help each other to escape the suffocating shackles. Whilst not as good as the earlier film it's simple message is entertaining enough, and must have appealed to American audiences where it was a box office success. The magisterial Utah wilds tend to outshine the on screen romance, and the film has a nice feelgood atmosphere. Willie Nelson makes an appearance and adds significantly to the sountrack by warbling five songs including "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" and "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys". The romantic cowboy of the open range is not a man to be exploited. He is the good guy who rights all wrongs and rides off into the sunset. He is in short the American dream! Not an icon to mess with! A generous four stars because it kept me happy during it's longish running time.
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