A film of mementos, of deliberately pale shadows
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09/06/09
Rio Lobo (1970)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:13
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6/10
Synopsis: Howard Hawks's final film once again teams him with John Wayne, with a script by Leigh Brackett (who also wrote his EL DORADO and RIO BRAVO). The time is just after the end of the Civil War. Wayne... [More]
Starring: John Wayne, Jennifer O'Neill, Jorge Rivero, Jack Elam
Director: Howard Hawks
Reviews for Rio Lobo
1 - 18 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Hawks' direction is as listless as the plot.
05/13/08
Top CriticFor such a refined director as Hawks to end his career on a note like this, having made some of the finest films in the history of American cinema, is an atrocity not worth the silver used in the negative.
05/13/08
Top CriticHawks last Western is his weakest collaboration with Wayne, but the film offers an occasion to see the aging Duke trying to rise above the routine plot and amateurish ensemble, including Sherry Lansing who would become a powerful Hollywood studio exec.
11/04/07
No review available.
05/07/07
If it lacks the formal perfection of Rio Bravo and the moving elegy for men grown old of El Dorado, it's still a marvellous film.
06/24/06
John Wayne is great to watch, and the train holdup sequence that leads the film is genuinely exciting.
05/26/06
A rambling Western.
10/01/05
No review available.
04/27/05
No review available.
11/19/04
In this case, the story itself doesn't matter much. We go to a classic John Wayne Western not to see anything new, but to see the old done again, done well.
10/23/04
Top CriticWayne is always fun to watch, even in lesser form here.
10/16/04
A John Wayne western; what more could you want?
09/24/04
Disappointing.
05/24/03
Top CriticNo review available.
08/07/02
No review available.
07/26/02
The fact that its best action sequence, the first, was directed by the second unit is emblematic of Hawks's relative lack of engagement with the material.
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