I’m just as shocked at writing this as you probably are reading this because I expected this not just to be good but great because numerous people I know I’ve said it is, it has high ratings on most popular movie website and there is a whole film festival named after it but I just couldn’t get into it. It’s one of the biggest disappointments I’ve ever had with a movie because it was built up so much and delivered so little in my books.

Based on a true story the film tells the tale of bank and train robbers Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman “Cars”) and The Sundance Kid (Robert Redford “The Horse Whisperer”) find that the law is getting a little too close for comfort so they flee to Bolivia but all doesn’t go to plan.

The two stars ruined any chance of me liking this film because they are incredibly bland… to me at least. They just sit around looking highly disinterested and they seem to lack any kind of energy, which is a real shame because when the leads don’t have any energy it has for me to engage in a movie. We don’t really see much of any other characters so the fact the leads are bad is made even worse.

This film has some clever moments in it but it’s hard to appreciate them when a film hasn’t caught your attention. The film is never so bad that you’re bewildered but it’s the kind of thing that has a much impact as whatever is on tv while you’re in an airport or restaurant. I can’t believe how famous and how liked this film is and I wanted to like it because I do tend to enjoy Westerns a lot and it’s nice seeing something that is slightly different but here I just found it didn’t really work.