WILD BUNCH (BLU-RAY) - VARIOUS

As a kid, I became obsessed with 'Cowboy' movies, and this is the reason why. It's probably a little violent for kids, but 20 years later it's still one of my favourite westerns. This is a bad-ass, bloody, super gory action western that will blow your mind. It's highly stylised, thrilling and brilliantly directed, with a grand finale shoot-out scene that makes this THEE western not to be missed.

Just about the best Western ever made. At the time it was attacked for its gratuitous violence but as director Sam Peckinpah said watch children play cowboys and lndians they just grab their chest and fall down imitating being shot. He wanted to show what it was like to really get shot. The force would throw you backwards and leave a bloody mess. Add a great cast with none trying to out do the other and you have a well acted film. Although set in 1913 it shows how a group of aging outlaws try to make one more score before their way of life dies forever and the disastrous consequences it brings

This film was made 40 years ago and has stood up to changing tastes and styles well. From the opening scene of a group of children taunting a scorpion, you know that you are in for an unusual and original cinematic experience. The much talked about violence is extremely brutal,but the film offers so much more than gratuitous violence. The times depicted were violent times,and the director has not avoided showing that. The cast are outstanding. Ernest Borgnine,William Holden,Robert Ryan,Edmond O'Brien,Strother Martin,& Warren Oates are in top form here. The film is a tribute to a vanished age,and vividly shows the desperation with which these men try to hold on to their threatened way of life.The second disc is filled with interesting documentaries on Sam Peckinpah,and the making of The Wild Bunch. The word "classic" tends to get overused now,but this film absolutely deserves that title.

It was a gift for my son, who now lives in Berlin, as he had never seen the film and I am pleased to say we now have another member of The Wild Bunch fan club! Undoubtedly one of the best films ever made and the final walk by the four remaining members of the Bunch must go down as one of the greatest scenes in cinema history.

This was my very first rated X film I ever saw , entering the cinema as a nervous kid in 1970. How the world has changed & our sensibilities since then . But I left that cinema having gone down "side by side" with the Wild Bunch in their last blase of comradeship , & the film joined my personal list of life-long loved films . When I first saw it way back it was damaged & scratched from the start & so to see this Dvd unfold across my 55 inch flawlessly is a personal joy .Intend to get the blue ray at some point whether there's any gain I don,t know . So..as Pike says....as I slip in the Dvd yet again...." lets go "

This is still one of the greatest westerns ever made. A simply stunning film in every respect. Really is a tale of violent men who had outlived their time

An old style Western, violent in parts with a high body count and lots of fake blood. But a bit of humour thrown in now and again thanks to the cast of old stalwarts of the Western genre. They don't make 'em like that any more.

A gritty no mercy picture of the west good performances all round.