That scene never gets old. What superb acting, even the Mexican extras are perfect.

The best Western ever made, along with an awesome cast.

One of the greatest westerns ever made, it redefined the genre and revolutionized cinema. It showed audiences the real outlaws, instead of showing us clean cut gentleman The Wild Bunch showed us old rugged outlaws way past their prime. Sam Peckinpah was a genius filmmaker and he died too young (59). In my opinion The Wild Bunch is the Citizen Kane of the western genre. Peckinpah made many great underrated films such as Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, The Ballad of Cable Houge, and many other films. The Wild Bunch will forever be known as a masterpiece.

Normally seeing how a scene is shot can lessen it's impact on screen. Here it is so remarkable that suspension of disbelief doesn't even come into it. It is too awesome for that.

I never gathered the Bunch could have escaped after they shot Mapache. They were massively outnumbered. I think the looks they gave eachother were a realization they could not escape, so why not take as many of them out as they could and exit in a blaze of glory? Ernest Borgnine's smile says, "They haven't shot back yet, so this may be the last thing we'll do, but it'll be the most fun".

probably the best Western of all time

"The walk" is the best pre-shootout sequence ever filmed. Nothing has ever come close to it.

The walk gave the audience time to think why these men were doing what they were doing. These men realized they had outlived their way of life. They were not willing to confirm or change. They choose the warriors death. Pure genius by Peckinpah.

This is easily the best western I have ever seen. The cast and acting and slow motion killing are what make this movie a classic. The last shootout is a masterpiece in film editing and bloodletting. One of my ten most favorite movies of all time.

Ernest Borgnine looks as mean as hell!..but he was a gentleman in real life apparently.

I saw the original theatrical release of this movie in 1969. The movie was much, much bloodier than the directors cut, especially the title sequence when robbing the bank. Excellent movie

My fav movie of all time! Then Butch n Sundance Kid!

Genius. From the walk off to assassinating the German general, who was really responsible for the death and violence of Mapache and his irregulars. That assassination turned the film from a story about outlaws in the waning days of the west and in the midst of the Mexican revolution into a political thriller, where a foreign power is checkmated by four American patriots who started off as outlaws but became heroes for their simple act of loyalty to one of their own. My favorite movie of all time.

"Let's go..." Totally brilliant. One of the greatest (most impactful) lines in movie-making history. Sam Peckinpah was a genius - greatly misunderstood and under appreciated by the Hollywood suits and bean counters. Imagine the movies he could have made if he were given a wider latitude. Say what you will, his movies were never boring.

pure genius peck was.....nothing like his films ty sam

El mejor western de todos los tiempos. Un genio Sam Peckinpah,. Bring me the head of Alfredo García es otro Diamante del Cine, una obra maestra.

I read somewhere that John Wayne hated this movie because it destroyed the myth of old the Wild West, the one portrayed by Wayne

Thanks for posting! Love that scene! ❤

Formidable el final, insuperable, por su realismo. Sam eres un genio.

This is called morality, sense of honor, right or wrong, in the world of renegade outlaws. There is that line of loyalty. There is a movie - one of my top 10 to 20 of all films I've enjoyed watching called "In Bruges" with Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes. It's about honor and morality in the lives of "hit-men", where again, there is that line. I highly recommend to those that loved "The Wild Bunch.

Sam couldn't find love but he sure loved Mexico and Mexicans

Ernest Borgnine was such a versatile actor. He could do cowboy drama and McHale's Navy comedy.

As great as the shootout is, and its masterful, the build up with the preceding scene with the women, and then the walk give it the dramatic necessity it has to have. And what is missing from so much of today's cinema. That quiet scene, with the women, is really the payoff for the flashbacks. Holden realizes he's blown his personal life, and if he does not go back for Jaime, all of his preaching about honor means nothing. He makes the right choice, balanced on the head of a pin.

A great movie, not just a great Western but all movies. They were men, that had conviction and principle, right or wrong by the standards of any time period and they stuck them to the death. Wonderfully acted and directed. I can't imagine any other actors playing those characters then or now. They sure don't make em like that anymore. Today's movies don't come close to the quality and content of the Wild Bunch. I hope they never try to remake it.

One of my Top 5 Westerns.

"Let's go!" is a theme throughout the film and is used by both William Holden's character and by Robert Ryan's. Perhaps there was more significance to this line that would have been explained more in the 30-something minutes that was cut from Peckinpah's final cut and lost prior to the film's release.

As the makers of this documentary say, it is poetically patriotic that the first person to die after Mapache was the imperial German general (this took place in 1913, not long before the infamous Zimmerman telegram proposing to Mexico they could get the US if they joined Germany in WWI).

La plus grande scène de ciné du plus grand film de tous les temps!!!! Fan absolu!

Hard to believe that William Holden was the third or fourth choice for the rile of Pike Bishop after Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum and one or two others turned it down.. This was easily Holdens best performance and it revived his career which had faded out after 1960. There is no doubt that this movie is a classic and the final shootout has never been bettered although the great John Wayne said he hated the movie. This generation of actors was unique and for some unknown reason no one came along afterwards who even came close to replacing them.

Master piece!

My maternal grandfather took me to see this when I was thirteen. Grandfather was a western fan from way back and I saw a number of 'em with him from the time I was four years old or so. My grandfather also had to petition my parents for permission for me to see an R-rated movie. The opening sequence is just as compelling as the scene alluded to here. My childhood takeaway from this movie is Bo Hopkins' character invoking his kid sister's 'black cat's @ss' when he's left behind at the beginning of the movie. I was thinking at the time, 'Did I hear that right?' The interesting thing for me is that one week later I was transferring to a new school and I had four day period of slack before I had to report to my new school. I was able to ride my bicycle up to the theater, buy a ticket and stroll right in to the 1 PM matinee and see The Wild Bunch (1969) by myself no questions asked.

Along with Once Upon A Time In the West, an Italian western/verismo opera, it is my favorite western. I sometimes have a lower opinion of people who cannot detect that it’s truly about friendship...they just can’t get past the violence. They weren’t leaving without Angel and Mapache screwed up when he underestimated these dudes...four tough gringos who took on a Mexican army. Anyone viewing this flick can really see Peckinpah’s love of simple Mexican folk.

ONE OF THE BEST ALL TIME WESTERNS EVER MADE, FANTASTIC DIALOGUE,WRITING, MUSIC SCORE, AND PLOT, EVERYTHING CAME TOGETHER, YOU DONT SEE WESTERNS OR MOVIES LIKE THIS ANYMORE ONLY SAM PECKINPAH COULD DO THIS, THANK YOU MR PECKINPAH , THEY DONT MAKE DIRECTORS LIKE YOU ANYMORE EITHER

"we have to start thinking beyond our guns"

You know it's a good film. When it all starts kicking off, you're not interested in the narration, you just want to watch the carnage and listen to the gunfire.

Ernest Borgnine was a Gentleman amongst Gentlemen!!!!!!!!

When you get so disgusted at the enemy, the desire to wipe them out surpasses the desire to survive the assault, but amazingly, sometimes you are able to walk away.

best shootout ever

now THATS what i was looking for thanks ;)

"Pike and Dutch"...great name for an American restaurant !!

We stick together, otherwise were finished.. all of us!!

Let's go!

When great actors walked the earth..

brilliant analysis

"THE WILD BUNCH"..................................ONE ...CULT MOVIE !!!

這是經典中的經典作品，This is coolest walking ever 👍🎼🎵

Arguably the greatest film ever produced.

the best western of all time. I still love it. William Holden was the best.

I have always loved this movie.

The most impressionable movie of my life. Released the summer of 69. I was 15.

Master piece of western movie

Wiliam Holden is the best actor ever!

This, this was THE WALK. Made 25 years (filmed in spring, 1968) before The Walk in Tombstone. As much as I like Tombstone, this is THE WALK for all ages.

I saw this movie when it first came out in theaters.

The drums man those drums ..

great

That would have been cool to have been there on the set.

Now THAT is a Western

THE WILD BUNCH AND THE GREAT NORTHFIELD MINNESOTA RAID CLASSICS

Would have liked sitting around at the end of a day of shoots, passing around a bottle of tequila and listening to the cast and crew rip it up. Great movie.

I believe it is the best shootout in a western! Peckinpah was a genius! RIP... I read about a rumour that Mel Gibson is going to make or direct I'm not sure which?, a remake of this classic movie, but I wonder if will be as good as the original??? 😲🤞

Awesome movie

esa pelicula esta bien chingona una de las mojores de su categoria.

Lets go best scene ever

Peckenpaw was a pion- eering hero. He broke the mold, more so - he shattered the heretofore illusion of the old west. The gunman, dressed in tight pants with white hat, a single six-gun strapped to one thigh, always clean shaven, and waiting for the bad guy to draw his weapon and fire first - then only afterward pulling his own and drilling the bad guy dead center simply never happened. It's fantasy, completely unrealistic. Not that there's anything really wrong with story books. But conversely, there's nothing wrong with being more authen- tic either. And in the 'real' wild west there was no such thing as the real good guy and the real bad guy. Nearly always, any man who wore a gun spent some time being one, and some time being the other. Fantasy is merely an intellectual reprieve in an emotional world.

The greatest Western of all time

Capolavoro immenso

What at ending!

Peckinpah was a genius...period.

If they try to remake this movie it will be the biggest tragedy in the history of Holly Weed.

The best movie ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

best film ever

The ammo belt from the machine gun is clearly not right! Someone must have been feeding it off camera!

THE finest Western ever made. and no one--------------Mel Gibson or whoever----------should ever touch this Masterpiece. ------------No one. --------------------------WolfSky9, 74 y/o

The guy at 37 second probably didn't know the film was rolling.....😵

The American dream, going out in a hail of righteous gunfire.

One of the best of the west , a gang who is running out of places to run an into a new era the 20th century an they should had been dead long ago , a posse on their tail headed by one of gang , all they want to do it make on e more big heist an end up in Mexico , then the General who hires them an after successfully doing the heist the General hold one of their own , they try an buy Him back , no dice , but they already knew that would happen so the hell with it , an start blasting away ---EPIC

Amazing fucking film.

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Yeh yeh thats exactly what I saw in Ernest Borgnines grin.the final glutt ov a born killer,for a moment there you think he and William Holden have a chance,but soon realise its the end .this film could not be made better by anyone Sam peckingpah was d man. BIGGZ

Ah. Los gringos, otra vez. His manner, his expression, and five words sum up the universal "WTF now".

sam was the best

Make a little cgi on restoration, namely flames on machinegun: guys act like shooting, soundeffects of firing but no flames in some shots.

Great western. They don't make 'em like that.

I bet Alec Baldwin’s Armorer could’ve learned a couple things on this movie set

Parras, Coahuila

Angel is just an escuse for them to die...

There's some worthwhile stuff in this doc, but it's ruined by that asinine Ken Burns style of getting some schmuck to recite someone else's reminiscences, and then state that person's name. It's goddamn irritating. Judy Garland.

I always saw the finale as the men shooting on the Mexicans because of a mix of things. They lost Angel, which gave them anger and resentment, and the Mexicans thought they could just do it and get away with it. Their "last stand" then becomes a mix of revenge and a "fuck you" to all of them who thought they could kill one of them and walk away from it.

The ending is silly, in real life the four dudes would have been killed in seconds! BTW, today, 7/8/2022, L. Q. Jones died at 94 years of age, he was in the film. I guess he got his liquor money!

Incorrect machine gun, the Browning 1917 was not invented until 1917 and not in production until April 1918 and it saw scant use in WWI. This movie is set before WWI, so a British Maxim machine gun or a Colt Potato Digger machine gun is more appropriate.

Pike! PIKE!!!!!

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This film is about the death of masculinity. And what a glorious death it was.

not a fan of this, after Bonnie and Clyde this film took the violence to the next level and of course now it's off the charts both in films and in our society. This is definitely a "guy" film , it taps into all that imaginary macho bullshit that guys tend to imagine exists. It's also a very American film with all the heroes macho Americans and all the bad guys, disgusting Mexicans. I think the movie goes on too long and should've been cut by about 20 minutes. I remember when this film came out, it was very controversial mainly because of the opening slo-mo massacre. It doesn't look like too much now but again I find some of this movie tedious and boring, and I love movies, especially westerns.