one of the best movie posters i've seen
i like this movie okay; i like more the premise and setup rather than how the movie was actually executed
i kinda think of this movie as the sort of younger half-brother of the film hombre, because it was also written by elmore leonard. hombre will rock your world, though. valdez is more like a tv movie and has some boring stretches that coulda been cut (and that awful 60's TV music. uggh. the movie sounds like an episode of big valley) clearly they cut corners on the production just to get it into the can for the studio. also, i wish they hadda cast real mexicans instead of lancaster and crew in brown face. (i borrow that from rob rodriguez, but he's right, so...)
i just gotta say, i wonder what this one woulda been like had sergio leone got hol of it.
but again, the setup and premise rock. i like revenge themes, especially when there is a RELUCTANT HERO who is pushed into action by bad guys.