Alicia I love this movie so much

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Oslo Jargo (Bartok Kinski) *** This review may contain spoilers *** This is a highly lacking western that strays from any common sense. It begins with an absurd and contrived "attack" on William Holden's ranch. He sets off to Mexico where he picks up the most venomous and unlikeable convicts, mostly foreigners, for the big "Revenge". Why they would help him is unknowable. They are indecisive, swerving between following him and shooting him and leaving him for dead, which makes little sense.Next they bust him out of the same prison they were in.William Holden, and everyone else for that matter, have no redeeming qualities that make the viewer side with them at all. They are riffraff and murderous, lecherous and loathsome.One pointless action scene has Kiowa or Comanche Indians attacking an armed regiment of U.S. Cavalry in broad daylight. William Holden and his bunch put sticks of TNT in the ground and by some means, are able to "shoot" them to explode. Most Indians are killed off (about 100) and only one of William Holden's bunch is shot dead. Why Kiowa or Comanche Indians would attack in such a manner is susceptible, because they would wait until dark.A lot of "horse tripping" (Horse tripping is the practice of roping the front or hind legs of a galloping horse) is to be found here, most likely breaking a lot of horse legs. It is hard to watch.By the weak ending, William Holden doesn't follow up on his big "Revenge" so the whole film is entirely pointless.The only commendable quality of the film is the scenery, which is beautiful. Filmed around Mexico, there's an old abandoned mining town with a rope-stayed foot/horse suspension bridge. The town is "Puente de Ojuela" in the Chihuahuan Desert, of eastern Durango, Mexico.

Spikeopath The Revengers is directed by Daniel Mann and written by Wendell Mayes and Steven W. Carabatsos. It stars William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode, Roger Hanin, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Jorge Luke, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Susan Hayward and Arthur Hunnicutt. A De Luxe Color/Panavision production, music is by Pino Calvi and cinematography by Gabriel Torres.Colorado rancher John Benedict (Holden) hires six chain-gang convicts to find the white comancheros who led an Indian raid that massacred his family and friends.It is pretty much a Western Dirty Half Dozen, with Holden getting to play the Lee Marvin role and Borgnine, stripped of the weight he was carrying when The Dirty Dozen was made in 1967, getting the chance to be one of the crims on a mission instead of the cameo role of General Worden in Robert Aldrich's macho magnificence. Nicely filmed out of various Mexican locations, film is essentially dealing with a man so hell bent on revenge he comes to resemble the criminals he now rides with. But even crims have codes and ethics as well! Director Daniel Mann never really gets to grips with the character dynamics, leaving hanging the themes of surrogate fatherhood and slave stoicism, while an interim part of the play that sees Hayward nurse Holden back to health actually bogs down the picture, coming off as an excuse to pitch the two great actors together again.Oh the performances of the cast are enjoyable, especially Borgnine who is having fun as a sly old grizzler, and Holden is as stoic and sternly professional as always, but nothing ever advances beyond being a bunch of blokes traversing the landscapes in readiness for a siege. Is the anticipated siege worth the wait? Actually yes it is, and it goes some way to explaining why the film hasn't fallen into the trough of stinky waters never to be used to quench the Western lovers thirst. But then! Something happens to make you think the Production Code was back in boorish operation. Pah! I imagine Peckinpah and Aldrich shed a frustrated tear at this point... 6/10

spenello Just saw this movie on Saturday afternoon network TV. That's where this movie deserves to be. Rated it a 4 because the scenery is magnificent. Speaking of which...didn't the movie seem like a cheap knockoff of the Magnificent Seven? The movie borrowing a lot of ideas from other westerns (family gets wiped out and Good Guy's out for revenge), has-been Susan Hayward trying to look sexy and play it up in the going away scene, generally bad actors acting with generally bad dialog, actors that look like someone (thought Tarp was Nick Nolte and the lieutenant was David Soul) but really aren't anybody, a truly dead ending (just riding away after NOT shooting the bad guy and saying "Maybe I've got squigglies in my heart") leads me to say... why'd I give it a 4 again?

Jake-75 At first glance this would seem to be just another violent western of the same class as "The Wild Bunch". Look more deeply into the characters and you will find several interesting changes over the course of the movie. Each character shows a human and sometimes frail side that belies the hard person that they have become.