The Missouri Breaks (1976) (2024)

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• Review by JBird ★★★½ 2

  "Old" mentions Nicholson and Brando,
  Which may seem a little rando.
  Unless "Missouri Breaks",
  Was not a mistake,
  If Shyamalan is a big fan, though.

• Review by MattH ★★★★ 3

  Jack Nicholson plays the clarinet and Marlon Brando puts a bug into Randy Quaid's mouth. Pretty good.

• Review by 🇵🇱 Steve G 🇵🇸 ★★★½ 4

  Disillusionment In Sun-Drenched 1970s American New Wave Cinema: A Watching Brief

  Reading some of the reviews and general other articles around about The Missouri Breaks, it seems many considered Marlon Brando's performance in this as one of its major problems.

  I'm not in agreement, really. In fact, I'm not even sure what he's done wrong here. If you write or direct a character who is a quietly psychopathic killer, and who also happens to serenade his horse and have all kinds of daintily decorated weaponry about his body, then I'm not sure what you would have wanted from Brando here. Was he supposed to play it absolutely down the middle when saddled (oh ho!) with this?

  I'd say he's the…

• Review by shookone ★★

  more like The Missouri tonal breaks

• Review by 20oldboy03 ★★★½ 5

  English Version below🟠🟢🔵

  
  DuBFaL-Western-Weeks- Shot 3 - Film Nr. 6

  
  Mit den Worten eines Andy Fells:

  Was für ein langweiliger Western. Keine Spannung und selbst die Top-Besetzung um Jack Nicholson und Marlon Brando, dazu noch Brandos schweißt Synchronstimme, konnten den Film retten.

  
  Tatsächlich kann ich, der Andys Bewertung mit einer 3,5/5 sprengt, seine dem Film attestierte Langeweile durchaus verstehen, weil objektiv betrachtet ist „Duell am Missouri“ ein Spätwestern der gemächlichen Art, für mich jedoch eine der Sorte Western, der durch das Spiel und die Verkörperung der Schauspieler und ihren Figuren punkten kann, ganz so wie bei mir.

  Erzählerisch wie oftmals optisch, durchzieht Arthur Penns Werk eine schlingende Fahrt durch die Geschichte seiner Figuren das immer wieder größte Wechsel der Farben…

• Review by wersku ★★★

  Okay, we have a western movie that features Nicholson and Brando, so you could say that the movie should be perfect, perfect at least for me, but somehow it still manages to be bit different.

  Horse thieves, bounty hunters, Brando's fart and the beauty and bleak environment of the wild west. The film has everything you could hope for. The characters in the film are not simple, but they have traits of a bad and a good, and the film's ability to trick my views between its characters is nice to watch, but where the film succeeds, it fails in something else.

  What's odd about this movie is its scenes and the pacing. They feel like there's no weight in…

• Review by patrick ★★★ 2

  what’s that movie that starred jack nicholson and marlon brando?

• Review by Fabian ★★★

  A much-anticipated collaboration between two of the most acclaimed actors of the time, Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando in a frontier western with a sprawling supporting cast that includes the likes of Randy Quaid, Frederic Forrest, John McLiam and Harry Dean Stanton. When it was released, The Missouri Breaks was seen as a major disappointment; a long-winded, slow-burning revenge film where the characters are eccentric and make little to no sense, where Marlon Brando delivers a seemingly inappropriate, wildly dissolute performance and Jack Nicholson falters under the weight of expectations post his impeccable run of outstanding performances from 1970 to 1975 (Five Easy Pieces, Carnal Knowledge, The Last Detail, Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—I mean, that run has…

• Review by Andy Summers 🤠 ★★★ 17

  I didn't remember much from my only viewing of Arthur Penn's The Missouri Breaks from back in 2012, but was keen to dust it off from my Dvd shelf and give it another outing. A film that has an undeniably quirky feel to it, it would appear to me that Marlon Brando thought he was starring in a totally different film to everybody else? To say his performance is odd would be an understatement, and how much of what appeared on screen was actually in the script is anyone's guess?

  The Missouri Breaks is a Western that focuses on Jack Nicholson's Tom Logan, the leader of a gang of rustlers who've been suffering from an increase in local resistance to…

• Review by matt lynch ★★½

  "I'm feeling an attack of gas, and that could be perilous for both of us."

• Review by 12drue 🎞️ ★★★½

  Bist du ein Gesetzesloser? Nein. Wieso hast du dann so viele Waffen? Ich bin ein Sportsmann. Wieso hast du dann eine abgesägte Schrotflinte? Ich bin ein abgesägter Sportsmann.

  Jack Nicholson und seine Bande von Pferdedieben legen sich mit einem reichen Ranchbesitzer an, der Marlon Brando als Regulator (=Profikiller) anheuert, um der Bande endgültig den Garaus zu machen.

  Ein ungewöhnlicher Western, der langsam erzählt wird und sich von einer seichten Komödie (deren Witze nicht immer überzeugen), über eine nette Liebesgeschichte zu einem kleinen Slasher steigert.

  Der Film lebt ganz klar von seinen beiden Hauptdarstellern, die sich ein (mentales) Duell liefern. Nicholson, der ja sonst auf Psychos spezialisiert ist, überlässt diesen Part diesmal Brando.

  Duell am Missouri ist sicherlich nichts für den klassischen Westernliebhaber: Zu wenig Schwarz und Weiß, zu wenig Pistolenschüsse, zu wenig strahlende Machohelden. Wer aber mal aus den Klischees ausbrechen möchte, sollte einen Blick riskieren.

• Review by Ken B ★★★½ 2

  De Niro, Hackman, Hoffman, Nicholson and Pacino...a journey

  Jack Nicholson Ranked

  I watched a video a little while ago. It was the early to mid seventies. Jack Nicholson was discussing the reasons he turned down movies like The Godfather. One such reason was that he didn't have many scenes in the script with Marlon Brando. As it turned out, those scenes for the character in question, Michael, ended up being greater than the version of the script that Nicholson read. Not that it mattered so much because his wish came true, co-starring in The Missouri Breaks with Brando. And in plenty of scenes, to-boot.

  It's a slightly odd film in that the pacing is a little off. It's pretty slow,…