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"Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 11/08/2016
Former comrades Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid find themselves on opposite sides of the law when Garrett takes the job of a lawman serving the interests of a cartel of corrupt cattle barons. Sam Peckinpah's eulogy to the old west is a rather more laid back affair than much of his work. It is still liberally peppered with gun play and the celluloid may as well be steeped in testosterone; the female "characters" - such as they are - exist only to bare their breasts, service the menfolk and/or be slapped around. However, the story also has sense of melancholia as these ageing men of action see out their final days, increasingly irrelevant in a world they no longer recognise. The soundtrack also seems almost as important as the action onscreen, providing an atmosphere of nostalgic Americana …
