Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

It is a great film and will be an exceptionally popular and profitable one.

Note-perfect performances, a screenplay steeped in both nostalgia and a timely sense of insight, and anti-heroes you can't help but love.

It is much better and funnier than the "The Sting" precisely because it allows the two stars to play off each other.

The movie is jovial without being silly; it retains the sense of adventure that characterizes the Western, but replaces the often somber mood with one that is airy and, at times, almost comedic.

The over-all production is very handsome, and the performances fine, especially Newman, Redford, and Miss Ross, who must be broadly funny and straight, almost simultaneously.

After a few minutes of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, I began to get that depressed feeling, and, after a half hour, felt rather offended...The director, George Roy Hill, doesn't have the style for it. The tone becomes embarrassing...George Roy Hill is a "sincere" director, but Goldman's script is jocose; though it reads as if it might play, it doesn't, and probably this is't just Hill's fault.

Every character, every scene, is marred by the film's double view, which oscillates between sympathy and farce.

Una película inolvidable que combina acción, humor y una química excepcional

A movie I've seen a dozen times, part of the way through. Finally finished the whole thing, especially the last 1/3, which I usually don't get to. I can see why. Redford and Newman are as charismatic as two movie stars can be; this is the peak. They literally defined the buddy movie, as their chemistry was off the charts. Katherine Ross was fine as Sundance's girl, but the movie never really explored how Butch handled being the third-wheel -- just fine, I guess. They are a few other excellent acting performances (e.g., the guy who played the sheriff crushed his one scene) and the cinematography and costuming was out of this world. However... ...the movie was too shaggy and loose for me. That's part of its charm, I guess, but it just kind of ambled along and towards the end, when Butch & Sundance were searching for what to do, I kind of searched for why I should care. Because it's Redford & Newman, I suppose, but I wanted more. The tone of the movie was glib, which could be quite charming (the script by William Goldman gave the plenty of memorable and clever lines) but seemed out of sorts at the end. Seemed like a movie you'd only think of as a Best Picture type if all you want is movie star charisma or you're really high and like looking at vast soundscapes and silly musical montages. A memorable, but overrated, film.

people kept robbing it.. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid The chemistry between the lead characters is the key to this feature that breeds soft moments in this hardcore western world where everything is fair. George Roy Hill's brilliant execution skills helps this feature sail off to the shore smoothly where a bit more editing would have done no harm. Robert Redford and Paul Newman are convincingly good in their sibling sort of relation and carries it all on their shoulder. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid being a character driven feature has brilliant performance, execution and character development in it but unfortunately lacks a gripping screenplay that may allow the audience to drift off once in a while.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Terrible movie just terrible! Acting, action, camera work, dialogue and storytelling are beyond ****