I don't see how any gifted actor could have done less than Brando does here. His resident power, his sheer innate force, has rarely seemed weaker. Stanley Kauffmann
Call me a heathen, but this has never been one of my favorite spaghetti Westerns. Christopher Null
It is hard to place one's affections anywhere in a world which is ruled by buttons and dials, computers and bleeps, and people whose conversation is...technical, inaudible or dull. Eric Shorter
Even granting the artist his license, America is much too big and various to be satisfactorily reduced to the dimensions of one mental ward in a movie like this. Vincent Canby
It's both fascinating and appalling the sort of extravagant technically superior spectacle that only a big Hollywood movie company could afford to make. Vincent Canby
It reduces a legendary figure to conventional movie-hero size amidst magnificent and exotic scenery but a conventional lot of action-film clichés. Bosley Crowther
The film's subtle racism is insidious, going to great lengths to enshrine the myth that the Civil War wasn't fought over slavery - an institution the film unabashedly romanticizes. Lou Lumenick
As much as I admire the work of both Polanski and Nicholson, I found [title] tedious from beginning to just before the end. Gene Siskel
[Title] is the first classy Kung Fu movie specially designed for Western audiences, and that's not to be confused with first-class. William Paul
One would think that a collaboration between Steven Spielberg and George Lucas would produce something better than this giggly pastiche of a Republic serial... Dave Kehr
An urban crime thriller which won undeserved acclaim for its efficient but unremarkable elevated-railway chase and its clumsy, showy emphasis on grainy, sordid realism. Geoff Andrew
Toward the end, the film resorts to placing a young girl in jeopardy in a pathetic attempt to pander to who knows what audience. Gene Siskel
If you've never been to the movies, [title] will be all new to you -- a zany-ridden product of the goofy farce school. But who hasn't been to the movies? Frank S. Nugent
I fear all work and no play has made Stanley a dull boy. Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Newman and Redford pass a few facial expressions between them and try to cool each other out. If there ever was much of a script, it can be said to have gone to waste. Jay Cocks
It is incumbent on us to inspect the real horrors of our time, but we don't have to traffic with Hitchcock's giggling obscenities. Robert Hatch
Except for the Mozart music and Tharp movements around the edges, [title] plays like a monument to mediocrity. Michael Sragow
Martin Scorsese makes pictures about the kinds of people you wouldn't want to know. Joseph McBride
It is a coarse-grained and exploitive work which depends on excess for its impact. Ashore it is a bore, awkwardly staged and lumpily written. Charles Champlin
At 212 minutes it is far too long, and large swathes of the action appear redundant or unnecessary. 'Bigger than [title]!' they say. That may not be a compliment. Glenn Dunks
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