Critic Reviews
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Washington Post
What'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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Boston Globe
Expanded, Major Dundee is still a mess of great scenes sprinkled among some fairly monotonous action.
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Entertainment Weekly
If 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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Christian Science Monitor
It'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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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
It'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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Salon.com
As 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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| 63 |
New York Daily News
The 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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| 60 |
TV Guide
Staff (Not credited)
An offbeat and sometimes jumbled western adventure film. (Review of Original Release)
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sadly, 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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Variety
More 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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Village Voice
What rescues Major Dundee in the end from its many conflicts and unresolved passions is Heston.
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Chicago Reader
Keeps building to apocalyptic climaxes that never materialize. (Review of Original Release)
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