SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

SnoopyStyle It's early 20th century. Various riders answer the call to compete in a 700 mile race. It stars Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Ben Johnson, Jan-Machael Vincent among others.This is a good functional road movie. There are various archetype characters. Their competition and comradery are treated with realism. The camera work in the desert is good with the exception of one slow-motion scene which obviously doesn't work. The twist near the end is great and fitting. There's just enough foreshadowing to create a good sense of satisfaction. However, the consequences of the twist was treated much too lightly. The music, and the way the chase was conducted was too silly and ill fitting.

whitec-3 Much to admire in Bite the Bullet, but the plot, setting, and editing are so ungainly as to undermine the overall cinematic experience.What's right about the film shouldn't be underestimated. Like a lot of 70s films, Bite the Bullet has a conscience. The representations of that conscience may make you wince, but the story treats its characters justly and insightfully. The Hackman character's recurrent decency to animals and humans creates a counter-narrative to all their suffering that bears good fruit as the story develops. The actors are all-star and well-cast--Hackman is in his prime, Coburn is best as a supporting actor, Ian Bannen was among 20c England's most likable talents, Candice Bergen looks like she looks, J-M Vincent shows good movement and range, and Ben Johnson gracefully reprises the old-timer from The Last Picture Show. The dialog and cinematography are often fine enough that individual scenes feel ravishing.Despite all these good vibes, the scenario's too big even for cinema. So many characters, stunt doubles, changes of landscape, and minutes strain attention. In the final plot-turn the soundtrack painfully echoes comedies like The Great Race while the actors go hammy. Suddenly one sees the undisciplined, indulgent, undiscriminating side of the decade. The finish-line scene appropriately comments on the race's inevitable exhaustion, but I had to fight to keep my finger off the fast-forward. Anyone not so devoted might wonder why they spent quite so much time watching or how a director might expect anyone to care about so many many people for so long.

ccthemovieman-1 A good cast, some nice photography and an interesting story about a 700-mile horse race make "Bite The Bullet" kind of underrated western. You don't hear it mentioned much in "Favorite Westerns" lists.The only drawbacks for me were a little too much language and that grundgy-70s feel to it that movies in that decade had to them, even in westerns. Having grown up with "Shane," and a bunch of westerns on TV, I still wasn't quite used to what I heard here when this came out 30 years ago. Nowadays, this is mild stuff.This is a fairly long film at 131 minutes but it moves fast. Gene Hackman plays the tough-but-humane hero. The rest of the contestants in this race are all interesting, too. Each is given a little profile of themselves and include Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson and Ian Bannen. In addition, there are some memorable scenes such as a horse literally dropping dead; a man poisoned, a woman with a "different agenda" an old man hanging on and a bad-turned-good kid. It's a nice mixture.

alexandre michel liberman (tmwest) This film builds up your expectations but fails to deliver, which is a shame considering it has great actors and great moments. Gene Hackman, James Coburn, Candice Bergen are excellent, there is quite a beginning where Coburn and Hackman fight together the insolent Jan-Michael Vincent and his friends, the contrast between the Englishman and Hackman, and the philosophy of Hackman both in relation to cruelty to animals and to life in general. With all those qualities what went wrong? The end of the film to start with, which does not achieve the needed dramatic impact. The editing of the scenes fails to reach a unity to make it more meaningful. Brooks, who made so many great films could have learned from "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines", which is a comedy also about a race (in this case airplanes) and in my opinion the best so far on this subject.