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- 1993
- R
- Gramercy Pictures (I)
- 1 h 51 m
- 1993
- R
- Gramercy Pictures (I)
- 1 h 51 m
Summary In 1898 Cuba, five Buffalo Soldiers find a gold cache, desert and return to America where they help defend a black town from the KKK, all the while trying to avoid capture by lawmen and military authorities alike.
Directed By: Mario Van Peebles
Written By: Sy Richardson, Dario Scardapane
- 1993
- R
- Gramercy Pictures (I)
- 1 h 51 m
- 1993
- R
- Gramercy Pictures (I)
- 1 h 51 m
Posse
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Summary In 1898 Cuba, five Buffalo Soldiers find a gold cache, desert and return to America where they help defend a black town from the KKK, all the while trying to avoid capture by lawmen and military authorities alike.
Directed By: Mario Van Peebles
Written By: Sy Richardson, Dario Scardapane
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Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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45% Positive
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35% Mixed
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20% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
56
45% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
35% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
20% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Violent and over-sexy as this movie may be, offensive as some may find it, it never loses its grinning good humor, its revisionist drive, its shoot-the-works spirit. It’s a killer entertainment--with an accent on “kill.”
Posse wants to be a 'classic Western' but its definition of classic is consistently cliched. Yet it has such grace and such an abiding belief in its message that you can't help but smile approval. [14 May 1993]
Van Peebles tells the story with ferocious vigor and unsparing brutality, entering Jesse’s haunted memory and dramatizing the farsighted schemes and improvisational daring on which the men's survival depends.
Westerns, even offbeat ones, demand a lean clarity that Van Peebles, at this point, lacks the discipline to establish.
POSSE remains no more than a pleasant genre diversion with unrealized ambitions.
A very good movie could probably be made about the black experience in the Old West, but Mario Van Peebles' Posse is not it.[14 May 1993]
Despite claims to the contrary, Van Peebles has no apparent desire to accurately reflect history. Instead, he caters, with an ugly lack of integrity, to a twisted perception of "popular taste," spinning an ego-trip that steals a numbing variety of Western cliches while betraying them with contemporary flavoring. [14 May 1993, p.20]
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