Pleasant and perfectly acceptable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2021

...it appears both the Duke and Hawks sort of walked through this one.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 11, 2011

The Duke knows by instinct what audiences accept without question: whatever he may be called in the script, he is always unmistakably John Wayne. And who would have it any other way?

| May 23, 2011

Delightful Western with unusually rich visual style.

| Jul 7, 2010

A film of mementos, of deliberately pale shadows

| Sep 6, 2009

Hawks' direction is as listless as the plot.

| May 13, 2008

For such a refined director as Hawks to end his career on a note like this, having made some of the finest films in the history of American cinema, is an atrocity not worth the silver used in the negative.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 13, 2008

Hawks last Western is his weakest collaboration with Wayne, but the film offers an occasion to see the aging Duke trying to rise above the routine plot and amateurish ensemble, including Sherry Lansing who would become a powerful Hollywood studio exec.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 4, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 7, 2007

If it lacks the formal perfection of Rio Bravo and the moving elegy for men grown old of El Dorado, it's still a marvellous film.

| Jun 24, 2006

John Wayne is great to watch, and the train holdup sequence that leads the film is genuinely exciting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2006

A rambling Western.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 1, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2004

In this case, the story itself doesn't matter much. We go to a classic John Wayne Western not to see anything new, but to see the old done again, done well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Wayne is always fun to watch, even in lesser form here.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2004

A John Wayne western; what more could you want?

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 24, 2004

The Duke rules with his iron fists in Hawks's wily westerner.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2004

Rio Lobo is less for the Western movie fan than it for the John Wayne fan and it may put a strain on the latter's loyalty.

| Nov 20, 2003

Disappointing.

| May 24, 2003