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- 1979
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 29 m
- 1979
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 29 m
Summary Facing hanging, a bank robber makes a deal with the corrupt banker to avoid execution in exchange for a dirty assignment.
Directed By: Hal Needham
Written By: Robert G. Kane
- 1979
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 29 m
- 1979
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 29 m
The Villain
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Summary Facing hanging, a bank robber makes a deal with the corrupt banker to avoid execution in exchange for a dirty assignment.
Directed By: Hal Needham
Written By: Robert G. Kane
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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14% Mixed
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86% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
22
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
14% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
86% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Though kids may enjoy The Villain's harmless high jinks, most adults will feel that, at 90 minutes, this cartoon is about 80 minutes too long. [06 Aug 1979, p.56]
Mr. Douglas does a lot of stunts, some of them reasonably good; these seem to be the would-be comic backbone of a movie that's not after laughs but heehaws, which in any case it doesn't get.
The Villain is itself an extended cartoon, a cartoon with live actors as its director Hal Needham redundantly describes it. The result: while we still guffaw once or twice, our suffering increases proportionately as we are made to sit through a full 80 minutes of numbing mindlessness. [25 July 1979]
The Villain is the sort of dumb comedy that never smartens up. [23 July 1979, p.B11]
Another broad-brush, unfunny feature from one-time stunt director Needham.
Douglas mugs his way through a tedious routine of graceless, mistimed slapstick as his incompetent outlaw repeatedly fails to waylay the miscast Schwarzenegger and Ann-Margret, while director Needham - apparently lost without Burt Reynolds - resorts to hackneyed camera trickery, and only stops the rot with a truly offensive resolution.
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Production Company
Rastar Pictures
Release Date Jul 27, 1979
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating PG
Tagline ...the fastest fun in the west!
