Thunderbolt and Lightfoot remains a major achievement for Eastwood, Bridges, and Cimino. It deserves to be more than a cult curiosity.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 27, 2024

…a great tough-guy movie that drips with learned experience and hard-earned pathos…

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 23, 2023

This light-hearted yet poignant buddy movie is very much in the style of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)...

| Mar 21, 2023

It’s the directorial debut of Michael Cimino, who also wrote the script, and his directs the film as a mix of character piece and lighthearted crime story with dark shadows around the edges.

| Dec 3, 2022

Thunderbolt sorely lacks the kind of movie-movie star-power that might have made it memorable despite its excesses of vulgarity and glibness.

| Oct 8, 2021

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a shambly and amiable caper dramedy that launched Michael Cimino's directorial career and served up Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges as a couple of outlaws moseying toward a possible big score.

| Sep 10, 2021

...a criminals-on-the-road movie that shifts toward a dazzlingly elaborate and painfully realistic heist tale.

| Apr 14, 2020

A great buddy heist movie that gets pulled down by some angry interlopers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 27, 2020

Director-writer Michael Cimino seems a master of offhand humor and bizarre characterization.

| Dec 13, 2019

Oscar-nominated Bridges is terrific, with his funny, freewheeling turn effectively loosening up Eastwood and allowing the superstar to appear more relaxed and less tight-lipped than usual.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2019

'Thunderbolt and Lightfoot' has the ingredients of a high-dollar buddy comedy, but it also steers toward quieter, more mature territory that ultimately gives it greater cinematic electricity.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 17, 2019

Thunderbolt & Lightfoot is an action film, but it's one where explosions, car chases, and violence seem almost beside the point.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2019

Both Kennedy and Lewis turn in colorful performances, but it's Eastwood and Bridges' film, and their ill-defined, tender friendship makes the movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2015

Eastwood e Bridges estabelecem uma boa dinmica, mas este ltimo, com uma composio jovial e inconseqente, quem d alma a um filme menor, mas ainda assim divertido.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 30, 2010

Debuting director Michael Cimino obtains superior performances from Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis and especially Jeff Bridges.

| May 6, 2008

Eastwood is in good, if not great form, Bridges steals the whole show, and Cimino displays a sense of unpretentious fun and appealing grasp of character that should have held him in good stead for a lengthy career. It didn't.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2008

A multifaceted caper film told in fine detail with richly developed characters.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 6, 2008

Cimino is so into making his images glow that he forgets to make the film move.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 9, 2007

The likeable result, made for and with the personnel of Eastwood's Malpaso Company, looks like a throwaway Eastwood vehicle.

| Jun 24, 2006

A fun classic, the likes of which they don't make anymore

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 11, 2006