Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Executscan Expected more

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

classicsoncall I'd been waiting for some time to finally catch this on the Encore Western Channel and now that I've seen it I'm sadly underwhelmed. The real Tom Horn was one of the most tragic gunfighters of the Old West, but the story here only deals with the last couple years of his life, just as it's star was sadly winding down his. Steve McQueen has always been one of my favorite TV cowboy and movie action heroes, and it was discomfiting to see him trudge through this role knowing that his end was near from the ravages of mesothelioma.A better film would have had a young McQueen portray the former Army chief of scouts who left home at fourteen to escape an abusive father, live with the Apaches, and later track Geronimo to his eventual capture. As a Pinkerton agent, Horn grew dissatisfied with the legal bureaucracy and became a 'stock detective' capturing rustlers, only to become disillusioned by the corruption of the legal system. As his own man, Tom Horn became judge, jury and executioner, crossing the line from soldier to assassin, placing a rock under his dispatched victims as a personal signature.The events leading to the eventual incarceration and execution of Horn are depicted accurately enough, though I don't know why it was necessary to change the names of the characters. The young boy Jimmy Nolt is a stand-in for William Nickles, the murdered son of a Wyoming sheep rancher. Fans of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" will probably recognize the name of lawman Joe Lafors; it was Lafors who tricked Horn into confessing to the murder of Nickles.Sad as it is to see McQueen go through the motions, I had the sense that he was giving it his all in one of his final pictures. The look on his face as he prepares his character for the gallows seems to presage his own passing in a few short months and you have to wonder how much of that weighed on his mind during the filming of that scene. Personally, I prefer to go with my youthful memories of McQueen as one of my all time favorite characters, that of bounty hunter Josh Randall.

Nazi_Fighter_David Directed by William Wiard and based on a true story, "Tom Horn" opens in 1901, in Wyoming, where McQueen meets John C. Coble (Richard Farnsworth) who offered him to ease up at his place for a while… Tom accepted, but he said I'd to earn my keep… Seeing Horn with great ability with a rifle, and after speaking with the Association, John asks him to eliminate the rustlers who have completely wiped out their herd profits not to mention what the buzzards and the predators have done to their cash crops… But after one incident has disturbed the Association in town, and the rustling has stopped, they determined to get rid of Horn forgetting he was only doing what they hired him to do… Mc Queen plays well the Indian tracker "scared to death of lobster, the man of the West "afraid to lose his freedom and not be able to get back up in those hills again." Linda Evans is appealing as the school teacher from Hawaii who saw a man of the Old West trying to live in the New… Richard Farnsworth is the loyal friend John C. Coble who was quite sure that Tom never killed that kid… John advices him not to try to break out of the jail… He knows he can do it, but it's just admitting his guilt if he tries… Billy Green Bush is the U.S. Marshal Joe Belle who asks the newspaperman to sit behind the door and write lying down what he hears real good… Slims Pickens is the old Sheriff Sam Creed who arrested Tom… With a legendary hero, great photography and good direction "Tom Horn" is very good Western to watch

disasterfilm84 As one of my personal favorite westerns I have looked at this film several times and wondered how McQueen was able to give such a fine performance as the title role of Tom Horn. McQueen signed on to do the role in 1977, and would spent three years researching the role and even spending the night at Tom Horn's grave to help develop the his character. The film is viewed by many to be very dark and not historically right, but viewing this film more than once you see that the character is really the victim and not the enemy. You also see this a different side of McQueen and the way he portrayed this character. For me anyways the picture will always remain in my top ten films of all time, just for its acting talent and superb camera-work. When viewing the film notice how McQueen portrayed the character as never being afraid of anybody even death. This is also an example of a standard western in which the hero dies honorably without showing fear. The courtroom scenes are also very interesting to watch on how the character seems to loose himself in the end.

revdrcac This film, while not a classic, is an important and entertaining view of the dying days of the American West. Tom Horn, as portrayed by McQueen, is a legend past his prime.... misunderstood and out of place in the new century. In a number of ways, the film is similar in this respect to the films Unforgiven as well as the Grey Fox (which also featured Richard Farnsworth).My only real disappointment in the film was the short amount of screen time for Linda Evans. She was dynamic in the few scenes in which she appeared and had excellent chemistry with McQueen.This film was superior to the earlier Nevada Smith and is a must-see for fans of the genre .