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80What's important is that Major Dundee, not a great movie but a great star-driven, big budget 1965 studio western, is back in all its fractured glory and confidence.
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75It's not a masterpiece, but its story of Civil War enemies banding together for battle against Indian warriors and French soldiers packs an occasional wallop.
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75Expanded, Major Dundee is still a mess of great scenes sprinkled among some fairly monotonous action.
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75If you want to see the missing link between John Wayne's squint and Clint Eastwood's sneer, look no further than Charlton Heston in Major Dundee.
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70As flawed as it is, Major Dundee maintains its dignity in the face of the injustices that were done to it. Ripped-up and ragtag, it still holds its head high.
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70It's hard to imagine "The Wild Bunch" having the depth and grace it did without Peckinpah having this experience to draw on, and for that masterful film alone we're grateful to have Major Dundee back among the living again.
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63The movie still isn't great, but it's an important remonstration to that oldest of all studio-system curses: the producer who thinks he's more creative than the director.
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60An offbeat and sometimes jumbled western adventure film. (Review of Original Release)
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58Sadly, it's still a plodding affair that's low on plausible character motivation and compelling action scenes, and it's still not much of a showcase for its star, Charlton Heston.
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50What rescues Major Dundee in the end from its many conflicts and unresolved passions is Heston.
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50More evident than ever the film is inherently a deeply flawed work that was far from fully realized in both script and shooting.
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50Keeps building to apocalyptic climaxes that never materialize. (Review of Original Release)
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AnthonyS.0Worst movie ever created. By the time it was over, I had aged three years and become completely impotent.