If you like Dennis Hopper, you like this kind of introspective crazy thing about life, so watch it :)
This is not a classical 50s or 60s Western - this is about how the Old West may well have been for real. No superstunts a'la "Matrix" her for sure, but there is some funny action!
I am only now starting to appreciate the 70s way of making odd movies, with all the less than adequately brainy, all computer tricks, and no substance material coming to our screens these days.
It's all about real people doing mundane things, at times doing stupid things, and occasionally doing even really stupid, but outright spectacular things.
Nothing is sacred, and conservatives will have to hate this piece, that leaves no legend untouched, and shows the old West at its end in its transition to modern times, in which even steam power can already be made out to be relic some day, but not quite yet. Modern times is a comin! The characters are simply everyday people, hypocritical, twisted, evil, a little nice at times, always mean in a way, denuded of social grace as well as soap and water, except when it serves the purpose of getting closer.
This is not a classical Western - this is about how the Old West may well have been for real, spitting, sex, and all.
So stuff your dreamworld, because if you want to be a honky cowboy, you may think twice after seeing this one.
Boring? Yes, there are boring stretches in this movie. But that too were the good old times. So change your pace and watch a true classic of the 70s Western genre. Did I say a classic, when I said before it isn't? Actually, this one is a classic - just a different kind.
