It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

It's Blaxploitation, but that's not the problem. You either like that genre or you don't. Essentially, every comedy with black people in it is Blaxploitation to some degree. See, for example, anything Tyler Perry has ever made. The problem is the movie is formulaic as hell. Richard Pryer gets Fred Williamson into trouble, then the song "Adios Amigo" starts playing, and Pryer escapes, leaving Williamson to fend for himself. They reunite later, and the formula repeats over again. That's the movie. Is it funny? Depends on if you like the comedic chemistry between Pryer's high jinks and Williamson's straight man.

Having previously wrote and produced Boss N!gger-which I highly enjoyed-here Fred Williamson adds director to his resume. Unfortunately, unlike the work I just mentioned, Adios Amigo is more of a mess narratively with Fred a frequent fall guy for Richard Pryor's con games that aren't very funny with Richard's lines mostly improvised. I half thought when Pryor's character would encounter an old man named Noah (Thalmus Rasulala in convincing aging makeup) and his nubile young women that there might be some raunchy humor but results there and pretty much the rest of the picture was tepid at best. Another disappointment was the mention in the credits of The Ink Spots making an appearance but they don't sing here just do some steps and finger snappin' or that's what it looked like to me. Really, I just can't recommend Adios Amigo.

Fred Williamson plays a man who is set up and busted by racist town officials and sent to jail, on the way to jail his stagecoach is held up by a crazy thief (Pryor). Pryor leaves him and soon they cross paths again and this time Pryor ends up getting him in a fight while he runs off with the loot. Soon they cross paths again, and then again, and again and Fred knows every time he sees Pryor its going to mean bad news for him. Pryor is all about getting the money and saving his own skin and loves knowing he now has a fall guy. By the movies end half of Texas is after them.The movie was simply not funny. I love Pryor, but this is not his best work, although he did ad-lib a lot of stuff. One scene where he pretends to be a real estate agent was rather funny, but it was a weak laugh.Fred Williamson wrote, produced and directed this film and he didn't offer anything in either..The direction was OK, the production wasn't bad as a whole, but left a lot to be desired and the writing was horrible. His acting was okay though, he does some good stuff from time to time.I hated the stupid theme song and it got played every 5 minutes here, followed by an animated picture - it got old quick.This movie was rather boring and neither funny or pleasing to western fans...avoid at all cost, even if you love these heavyweights. 1/10 stars.

i found this movie for a very cheap price and thought,how bad could it be.right off,i could tell the budget was next to nothing.at least it felt that way.it is supposed to be comedy,but from what i watched,it was not funny at all.i also noticed that the same manufacturer and distributer were also behind "Dan Candy's Law".i think the production values are better on this film.at least the movement of the lips and the words matched,unlike "Dan Candy's Law"but i also thought the acting wasn't very good.Richard Pryor and Fred Williamson are the main characters,co the movie should have been funny,but to me it was not.i might try and watch it some other time,and maybe i will have a different opinion.but for right now,i didn't like it.