Sunday, July 19, 2009

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Finally, I'm getting around to watching movies not made within the past year and a half. And I picked a classic listed at #149 on the IMDB.com top 250. It did not disappoint.

The story follows an aging Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and his younger partner in crime the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) as they realize that they are getting too old for the bank robbing business and are starting to call it quits. They decide to do one last take, so they go after a train carrying a bank's money. After that, people are hot on their trail, making it more difficult to escape.

You have Newman and Redford on screen, so you know the performances you are going to get are going to be terrific. It was kind of slow at parts, but all in all a very nicely paced movie that entertains and entices the audience.

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