Blackthorn
Leaving Bolivia and heading back to the U.S., the outlaw formerly known as Butch Cassidy (Sam Shepard) has a final adventure, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
1 August 1973, Santander, Cantabria, Spain
6 November 1977, Adamstown, Co. Wexford, Ireland
3 May 1986, Dublin, Ireland
5 November 1943, Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
31 October 1946, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
June 18, 2012
Sam Shepard delivers a terrific, dry performance as the older Butch Cassidy, his stoic view of life honed by years of reflection and self realisation. It's a well written screenplay and director Mateo Gil makes the most of it
April 10, 2012
Shepard's crusty charisma gives this dignified genre effort its pulse: a growl-off between his Butch and Jeff Bridges's Rooster Cogburn is surely the next chapter.
October 14, 2011
"Blackthorn" feels less like a proper sequel to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," which it purports to be, than a coattail rider.
April 14, 2012
Offers a fascinating imaginary sequel to the story of Butch and Sundance.
June 22, 2013
It's a perfect part for Shepard, and "Blackthorn" provides considerable pleasure just in watching him ride a horse and bark around.
June 19, 2013
This story, parboiled out of one of the most memorable Westerns, is supported all the way by Gil's directing.
October 28, 2011
It ain't Paul Newman and Robert Redford, but it ain't bad.
March 14, 2013
With Paul Newman no longer with us, no other actor could have fitted so snugly into the legendary outlaw's old boots.
October 20, 2011
Although Shepard is perfectly cast as a world-weary outlaw reluctantly drawn into one more adventure, the movie doesn't quite justify the resuscitation of classic film characters for another outing.
April 13, 2012
A Western in possession of a social conscience, but without lapsing into preaching or patronising, this is an unassuming film in some ways, but ultimately it's self-assured, elegiac and sometimes strikingly beautiful.
October 21, 2011
In place of a rousing adventure, "Blackthorn" is a haunting ode.
