The Professionals
(1966)
Based on the book “A
Mule for the Marquesa” this film from director Richard Brooks stars
Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Ryan and Woody
Strode. Four men travel to Mexico in the last days of the Mexican
revolution to rescue a woman that has been kidnapped.
Despite having a
really good cast and some decent action sequences this western does
not really add up to anything more than an average genre piece. There
is a decent twist in the plot as well as some mumblings about the
nature of revolution and how people become attracted to fight in one
but none of this really goes deep enough. Having picked up three
Oscar nominations I did expect a little more from this film but it is
still a fine watch if not much more.
3/5
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