ThiefHott Too much of everything

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

JohnHowardReid Magnificently photographed with a brilliance hitherto unmatched in the usually patchy DeLuxe color medium, "One Hundred Rifles" comes to us with superb action sequences, but unfortunately we are let down by the ill-advised casting of Jim Brown in the central role. Although the rest of the cast give him strong support, this is a part that was plainly meant for someone like Gary Cooper or Burt Lancaster. Pleasing through it is to find Jim heading the cast, it's difficult to identify with him in the hero's role here. Why not? It's hard to tell. Perhaps because we're not used to making such an identification? Or is it that we don't feel with him simply because he lacks a photographic charisma? Now that's a hard ask. I could easily give you a list of fifty great stage actors who never made the grade in movies. They just simply didn't come across on film. That's why we have film tests. On the other hand, I could give you a list of at least thirty great film stars I knew personally that just simply didn't come across in real life. But put them in front of a camera, and something magical happened. The camera loved them so much, it not openly smoothed out all their bad vibes, but gave them a charisma that they actually lacked in real life.

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Burt Reynolds movie in his filmography in order, I come to 100 Rifles.Plot in A Paragraph: Set in Mexico during Indian oppression and rebellion. Law man Lyedecker (Jim Brown) arrives in town in hot pursuit of Yaqui Joe (Burt Reynolds) who has stolen $6000 from a bank. Lyedecker soon catches his man, but problems arise when it is revealed Joe is involved in the Indian uprising, and has used the money to buy 100 Rifles for the Indians, which he plans on taking them to the Indians with Sarita (Raquel Welch) Leydecker gets caught up in the uprising but is determined to get his man back to the U.S. as a prisoner.Jim Brown does as well as he can in his role, but acting is not his strong suit. Raquel Welch is gorgeous with a wonderful body, but she was not much of an actress back then and only Burt Reynolds emerges the films real star "acting wise" he plays the role with a glint in his eye and he brings the laughs. Of the three co stars he is the only one who can actually act. Had his character being better scripted, then this would be one of Burt Reynolds more famous characters. As it it is he easily stole this picture.I don't understand why there isn't more love this movie. Burt Reynolds earlier western" Navajo Joe" has a cult following yet is nowhere near as well made or as enjoyable as "100 Rifles"

cny_cd This film had a lot of potential, and had a lot of things going for it (great scenery, good story, big name actors), yet it still falls a little flat. In my opinion, a lot of the reason for this is that the actors, although very good in other roles, were just not well suited for this story. The one exception was Fernando "Dahhlings" Lamas, who really did a great job playing a Mexican general. Jim Brown, who has been good in other movies (i.e. The Dirty Dozen), really wasn't convincing as a sheriff (were there any African-American sheriffs in the Southern USA at this point in time?), and his acting is quite wooden throughout. Raquel Welch, although quite stunning to look at, really was never a great actress, and isn't all that believable as a Mexican guerrilla fighter. And seeing Burt Reynolds in a role as a half Mexican, half American thief is quite unusual and not very authentic either. The story itself is pretty good and briskly paced, and the locations are quite beautiful to look at. Despite the poor casting choices, this is a decent film, and well worth a look. 6 rifles out of 10......

inkybrown In 1966, future cult starlet Soledad Miranda traded her artistic life for family life and took a two-year break from performing. She decided to return to cinema when offered a role in 100 Rifles. Soledad appears at the beginning of the movie in a scene with Burt Reynolds. They are in a hotel and are lovers; Soledad demands money from him, but he refuses and it gets a little rough. Their fracas on the hotel balcony (where Soledad is topless) is witnessed by all the townspeople. A Spanish journalist who saw the film in London wrote that Soledad's "charms" had nothing to envy of Raquel Welch's, and begged the Spanish censors to let her countrymen see and admire all that God had given her!