
Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) makes his way west after the Civil War, determined to live a useful and helpful life. He joins up with a group of settlers who need the protection that a man as tough and experienced as he is can provide. Unfortunately, the past has a way of catching up with you, and Josey is a wanted man.... (Full plot summary below)
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Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) makes his way west after the Civil War, determined to live a useful and helpful life. He joins up with a group of settlers who need the protection that a man as tough and experienced as he is can provide. Unfortunately, the past has a way of catching up with you, and Josey is a wanted man.
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| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouMichael NordineIt's true enough that The Outlaw Josey Wales makes no attempt to hide its true nature, but that isn't to say it doesn't reward a closer look. |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxArguably Eastwood's best film, as both an actor and director. |
| MovielineJoshua MooneyThe truly impressive aspect of Eastwood's Wales is just how broad a range of emotions the actor conveys without forsaking his legendary economy of gesture, or ranging beyond his ultra-macho monotone growl. |
| Apollo GuideElspeth HaughtonAs a director, Eastwood's storytelling is subtle and his translation of adventure is quick and dirty. |
| VarietyVariety StaffThe screenplay is another one of those violence revues, with carnage production numbers slotted every so often. |
| EmpireIan NathanA truly great Western from Clint that is bleakly atmospheric and charming in turns. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertClint Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales is a strange and daring Western that brings together two of the genre's usually incompatible story lines. On the one hand, it's about a loner, a man of action and few words, who turns his back on civilization and lights out for the Indian nations. On the other hand, it's about a group of people heading West who meet along the trail and cast their destinies together. What happens next is supposed to be against the rules in Westerns, as if Jeremiah Johnson were crossed with Stagecoach: Eastwood, the loner, becomes the group's leader and father figure. |
| Slant MagazineChris CabinThe remnants of war are fractious and far-flung in Clint Eastwood's impressive revisionist western. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceEastwood's laconic gunslinger leaves a trail of bodies and tobacco spit throughout the film, but the trajectory lies in his questioning of the Man-of-No-Name mold though interaction with the more earthbound humans. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseThough the story is pat...there's pleasure to be had in the memorable one-liners, the irreverent humor...and the Western action against the backdrop of frontier scenery. [Blu-ray] |