The Peckinpah Bunch ~~"The Wild Bunch (Two-Disc Special Edition, Original Director's Cut)"

The Wild Bunch (Two-Disc Special Edition, Original Director's Cut)

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 The Peckinpah Bunch, 2002-11-11

It's a tribute to Peckinpah's skill at engineering the story that it takes some time for the essential knuckleheadedness of "The Wild Bunch" to dispel the impact it makes on a viewer. The story is based on the dim-bulb idea that a Mexican revolutionary would hire six complete strangers to rob an American munitions train, and that these has-been outlaws would outwit and outrun a full troop of U.S. cavalry in the process of pulling the job. Peckinpah also reverses history when he comprises of shabby nincompoops the railroad posse also trailing the bunch, when in fact American rail companies could and did hire the best men available for such work. In terms of historical reality, the film is completely outclassed by another western released the same year, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Some of the scenes in "The Wild Bunch" are quite amazing in their technical virtuosity but Peckinpah was rarely if ever in total control of himself or his material. His one legitimate masterpiece in my opinion is "Ride the High Country."

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