It is a performances centric movie

best movie i've ever seen.

Absolutely Fantastic

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Sergio Corbucci western with style to spare. Every good spaghetti western is a revenge story and this one's no exception. Burt Reynolds plays the title character Navajo Joe, who hunts down the men responsible for the death of his wife. Lots of violence amidst the attempts at profundity but it's all good fun. Try not to take it seriously and you'll enjoy it more. There is a cheese factor but, again, it's a spaghetti western so that comes with the territory. More so when you add Burt Reynolds to the mix. I don't care what anybody says, I love the Ennio Morricone score. I was humming "Nav-a-jo Joe Nav-a-jo Joe" for a long time after the movie ended.

The early 20th century produced a number of silent Westerns, now erased from both history books and film archives, in which lovable cowboys gunned down savage Native American Indians, most of whom wanted to kill their kids, burn their towns and rape their women. In other words, almost the opposite of actual history.Westerns began to get more complex as the decades rolled on. By the 1960s, an era of mass movements and civil rights campaigns, revisionist westerns were a dime a dozen. What was being revised? The ideals of Manifest Destiny, frontier masculinity and a form of white, western exceptionalism. As such, most of the westerns released in the 60s and 70s centred on sympathetically portrayed Native Indians or mixed race Apaches. They dealt with bigotry and xenophobia, they portrayed "cowboys" as being violent and brutish, dealt explicitly with genocide, or portrayed natives as righteous warriors who unleash divine justice.Bizarrely, these films ("Hud", "Hombre", "Soldier Blue", "MccAbe and Mrs Miller", Altman's "Buffalo Bill", "Little Big Man", "Chato's Land", "Bad Company", "Lonely Are The Brave" etc) are mostly ignored or rarely canonised as "great westerns" of the era. Instead fare like "Once Upon A Time In The West", "Hang Em High", "True Grit", "The Wild Bunch" etc are exalted, essentially films which either revitalise western archetypes or mourn the death of the cowboy, pining for a specific form of violent, outlaw masculinity."Navajo Joe" is a 1966 Spaghetti Western by Sergio Corbucci. Essentially a blood and guts exploitation movie (Tarantino loves it), it watches as a Navajo Indian, played by Burt Reynolds, wages war on the group of white bandits responsible for massacring his tribe. The film is bloody, violent, scored by the great Ennio Morricone, and obsessed with vengeance. During this period, many blaxploitation movies were telling similar tales in urban settings, oppressed Africans gunning down slimy white villains in a blaze of righteous, ethnic justice. Most of these films are more interesting as historical capsules than "good art", and its perhaps likely, at least in a social sense, that their glorification of vengeance has the opposite effect, not empowering but propagating disempowerment, subjugation and the further sanctification of violence.Corbucci was always a second rate Leone, but he had some style. Reynolds is terrible as our hero, complete with fake spray-on tan and a bad wig. He needs a surfboard, not a six-shooter.6/10 - Worth one viewing.

Not without interest but this starts so well with some great long shots and then some startling up close violence and the story is unfolding as we struggle to keep up, and then it pretty much stops. We are introduced to a very young Burt Reynolds who looks pretty good with his horse and rifle but then we get to meet the baddie brothers and they seem far more interesting. Lovely old train but lame plot which necessitates the town's folk (who have said 'no' to guns) being able to do nothing except sit around and wait hoping that Joe will sort things out. Thing is we have to sit watching them sit. And so it plods on. There are a couple of spurts of nasty violence but the girls are wasted, criminally so in the case of Nicoletta Machiavelli and we are forced to imagine just how good this might have been.

Daniel Baker pull your head out of you know what! First off Burt Reynolds had to leave during filming of Navajo Joe for a commercial, which infuriated Corbucci. Reynolds thought he was going to become a huge star doing a spaghetti western and believed he was going to work with Leone. I believe deep down in his little heart he knows this was one of his better roles he has played.The opening scene was great with Aldo Sambrell (Mervyn Duncan)smiling at Joe's wife (Cristina Sani). I didn't think (Indians) feared anyone especially Navajo..Answering Daniel's second intelligent remark! It shows Duncan's hatred for his own being half blooded Indian and during his childhood being called a halfbreed. He collects Indian scalps for a dollar a head. Which is funny how Joe makes a deal with the townspeople for a dollar a head. When Duncan learns that he has a bounty on his head he sacks the local town and make's a deal w/ Dr. Lynne in stealing the train carrying $500,000 on board. One by one Joe eliminates the Duncan Gang and Dr. Lynne is killed by Duncan. It is a great final showdown with Merv Duncan and Joe in the Indian Burial ground of his ancestors. Like Corbucci's style the hero is killed off unlike Great Silence were the hero dies and the villain lives. The hate for one another destroys each other it is a cool Ax to the head scene which is edited in most versions. When you see Joe's horse ride into town with the money we know Joe has died....Niccoletta M. plays a small role in this film as a half breed as well but the opposite to Duncan's character.Ennio Morricone uses an unusual alias as Leo Nichols. Great music, great camera work and great acting. It is a shame Reynolds only contribution to this genre. The saddest part is it never gave Aldo Sambrell a chance to play a lead role only more smaller parts. It is rumored to have a full version were Joe is visited by Nicolleta M before he dies in the burial grounds bullet ridden.