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Bring Me the Head
of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

Rate: 4
Viewed: 6/13

Agarcia
6/13: I hate to say it, but Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is too silly.

It's an overwrought symbolic picture with the infusion of many typical Peckinpah elements. Sam did it better in The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, and Junior Bonner. The poem is there, but the pace isn't. It takes too long to get to the point, and when it's arrived at, all I can do is laugh. Warren Oates has never been hammier.

Benny decides to drive hundreds of miles just to sever a wanted head and comes back while people are killed during the process. Not much is said for a long time. At the end, Benny determines that the hooker is worth killing for when the fact remains she's only a hooker. Oh, come on...spare me the nonsense self-righteous crap.

All in all, Sam Peckinpah has to do way better than Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.