Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

LakiM9 Another work of Spaghetti western master! But is it really that bad? Sergio Corbucci knew how to make good-looking movies. Or at least, he knew how to make this one look good. He combines up the shots of the Western landscape (Spain, as usual in spaghetti westerns, stands in for the American frontier). He knows whose faces the audience loves and gives them lots of dramatic close-ups. Hands up to cinematographer Silvano Ippoliti, but the cinematographer can only photograph what the director tells him to, and Corbucci knew what to shoot.Corbucci also manages to keep his leading man off of the screen most of the time. Burt's stuntman is superb. They combine to give us Navajo Joe, one of the most athletic western heroes you have ever seen. Unlike the typical western lead who gets most of his exercise transferring his Colt .45 to and from its holster, Joe believes in getting close and personal whenever he can, usually by flying through the air and otherwise dealing with the situation acrobatically. The movie poster ridiculously shows Burt aiming a bow, which he never once uses in the movie; as any smart Indian would, Joe uses a Winchester rifle for long-range combat. But he uses even the Winchester athletically, holding down the trigger and pumping the lever action frenetically to shoot down his foes. Even Burt Reynolds has goofed on this movie several times during guest spots on TV talk shows. Whatever, Navajo Joe is a worthwhile Euro- western, several degrees darker and brutal than other released during the same year and a much better, more stylish film than Burt's later westerns. I'd rate Navajo Joe a "must see" movie for Spaghetti-heads, but I wouldn't place it in my top 10 SW. Somewhere in my top 20's more like it. And the Morricone's score in this picture is beautiful.

tieman64 The early 20th century produced a number of silent Westerns, now erased from both history books and film archives, in which lovable cowboys gunned down savage Native American Indians, most of whom wanted to kill their kids, burn their towns and rape their women. In other words, almost the opposite of actual history.Westerns began to get more complex as the decades rolled on. By the 1960s, an era of mass movements and civil rights campaigns, revisionist westerns were a dime a dozen. What was being revised? The ideals of Manifest Destiny, frontier masculinity and a form of white, western exceptionalism. As such, most of the westerns released in the 60s and 70s centred on sympathetically portrayed Native Indians or mixed race Apaches. They dealt with bigotry and xenophobia, they portrayed "cowboys" as being violent and brutish, dealt explicitly with genocide, or portrayed natives as righteous warriors who unleash divine justice.Bizarrely, these films ("Hud", "Hombre", "Soldier Blue", "MccAbe and Mrs Miller", Altman's "Buffalo Bill", "Little Big Man", "Chato's Land", "Bad Company", "Lonely Are The Brave" etc) are mostly ignored or rarely canonised as "great westerns" of the era. Instead fare like "Once Upon A Time In The West", "Hang Em High", "True Grit", "The Wild Bunch" etc are exalted, essentially films which either revitalise western archetypes or mourn the death of the cowboy, pining for a specific form of violent, outlaw masculinity."Navajo Joe" is a 1966 Spaghetti Western by Sergio Corbucci. Essentially a blood and guts exploitation movie (Tarantino loves it), it watches as a Navajo Indian, played by Burt Reynolds, wages war on the group of white bandits responsible for massacring his tribe. The film is bloody, violent, scored by the great Ennio Morricone, and obsessed with vengeance. During this period, many blaxploitation movies were telling similar tales in urban settings, oppressed Africans gunning down slimy white villains in a blaze of righteous, ethnic justice. Most of these films are more interesting as historical capsules than "good art", and its perhaps likely, at least in a social sense, that their glorification of vengeance has the opposite effect, not empowering but propagating disempowerment, subjugation and the further sanctification of violence.Corbucci was always a second rate Leone, but he had some style. Reynolds is terrible as our hero, complete with fake spray-on tan and a bad wig. He needs a surfboard, not a six-shooter.6/10 - Worth one viewing.

christopher-underwood Not without interest but this starts so well with some great long shots and then some startling up close violence and the story is unfolding as we struggle to keep up, and then it pretty much stops. We are introduced to a very young Burt Reynolds who looks pretty good with his horse and rifle but then we get to meet the baddie brothers and they seem far more interesting. Lovely old train but lame plot which necessitates the town's folk (who have said 'no' to guns) being able to do nothing except sit around and wait hoping that Joe will sort things out. Thing is we have to sit watching them sit. And so it plods on. There are a couple of spurts of nasty violence but the girls are wasted, criminally so in the case of Nicoletta Machiavelli and we are forced to imagine just how good this might have been.

FightingWesterner Instead of slapping you in the face for not seeing Navajo Joe, Burt Reynolds is more likely to slap you in the face if you have seen Navajo Joe!I saw a television interview once where Reynolds spoke very flippantly about it, basically saying that he was trying to imitate Clint Eastwood's (whom he replaced on the TV series "Rawhide") path to success by going to Europe and starring in a western. He went on to say that unlike Eastwood who got Sergio Leone, he was stuck with Sergio Corbucci.While I understand Burt's disappointment that this didn't become a hit movie or do much to advance his career, I don't understand his embarrassment as this is actually a pretty decent picture and he did get to star in a movie, which most people don't get a chance to.Sergio Corbucci is named by many as the next best thing to Leone, whose films are being rediscovered and re-appraised as classics of the genre. I'd say he did pretty good for a TV actor! (and this couldn't possibly be worse than Driven!)The plot involves a brutal band of cutthroats led by menacing Spanish actor Aldo Sambrell, who go from killing Indians for profit to an attempt at robbing a train, thwarted by Navajo Joe who takes the train (and the loot) to it's intended destination and agrees to save the town from the now angry rampaging outlaws.As far as Italian westerns and Sergio Corbucci films go, this is neither the best nor worst of either. It's worth watching and has a great score by an uncredited Ennio Morricone.