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Peckinpah makes a big winner in this hardcore
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
Jul 25, 2006
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western shoot-em-up. There are no clear good guys and bad guys here. Everybody is trying to win.
A group of "entrepreneurs" decide to rob a train station.
The train personnel had been robbed by the group before though and had set up an ambush.
Nonetheless, the majority of the robbers get away.
In their wake, several townspeople and bounty hunters get blown to bits.
After that, they cross over into Mexico and form a dangerous alliance with a revolutionary, General Huerta or "Mapache."
Huerta and his men are fighting in a power struggle for Mexico with fellow revolutionary Pancho Villa.
Villa has the upper hand in men, and superior weaponry but Huerta has a plan.
Huerta knows of a weapons delivery the U.S. is transporting on a train.
He offers the "entrepreneurs" thousands in gold if they can acquire the weapons.
It's very bloody, real, and all parties involved have to make harsh choices about life and death.
A superior Western, the best I've ever seen. |
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