The movie really just wants to entertain people.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

There didn't seem to be too much in the content of this Clint Eastwood vehicle to differentiate it from TV western dramas of the time, apart that is from Eastwood himself. He gives the eponymous title character some life, even if Joe Kidd is really just another taciturn, laconic anti-hero aptly suited to his minimalist acting style. The locations and cinematography are fine too while Robert Duvall is okay as the baddie, enlisting maverick Kidd to track down a Mexican bandit with whom he's at war, before he does that totally idiotic thing you don't do to Eastwood in one of his films, which is to double-cross him.The weaknesses of the film are firstly the narrative, as I struggled to believe that an amoral character as Kidd would get involved in a turf-war like this, secondly, the casting of the supporting parts, in particular John Saxon completely lacks menace, never mind the charisma to control his gang as the scurrilous but selfish rebel and thirdly, the score by Lalo Schifrin, which seems to belong better to some of the cops and robbers TV shows and films he was also scoring at the time.The plot is fairly predictable, enlivened by a "OK Corrall"-style shoot-out at the end, but for me the film never really takes off. I enjoyed the under-the-radar humorous references to Eastwood's recent success with "Dirty Harry" but there was little other humour to report which might have helpfully pepped up proceedings.Instead, Kidd's dour personality and Duvall's unrelenting thirst for revenge make for a stolid movie, directed adequately, no better, by John Sturges, who like Eastwood and Duvall, made better movies than this.It's no disaster mind you, just a bit predictable and run-of-the-mill. Fairly standard Clint- material for the time, fair-to-middling only, I'd say.

Yep, it's ANOTHER Clint Eastwood Western. Typecast? HIM? NEVER! In this one though, he actually has a name. And he has a lot to say for himself. Some things never change though... he likes a drink, he barely misses with his rifle and he gets all the girls, he gets all the girls (Calvin Harris reference there, music fans). Twisted loyalties abound too, who will he support... Some Mexican revolutionaries who have been cheated out of land, or a tycoon and his men who are willing to shoot innocent people to get their hands on them? Hmm... I don't think I'll need Ask The Audience for this one...Clint's screen presence is as palpable as ever, even when the rest of the plot is just going through the motions. The highlight is the hi-jacking of a train which crashes through some suspiciously thin wood so Eastwood can get at some evil guys in a saloon; aside from that, it's all rather generic. That's not to say it's bad, but it's hardly going to join his pantheon of Western classics like The Good, The Bad And The Ugly or Unforgiven. Still, perfect for a Sunday afternoon. After a full roast, of course. 6/10

Clint Eastwood plays Joe Kidd, a former bounty hunter in the American Southwest who is approached by a wealthy landowner(Robert Duvall) to help him fight a band of Mexicans(led by John Saxon) who are irate that their land claims have been denied(destroyed in a courtroom fire apparently) and so have taken up arms. Duvall really wants the land for himself, and to Joe's dismay, will go to any lengths to get it...Ho-hum western with a good cast that can only do so much with such routine material, despite some good location photography and train crash finale, there is very little else to recommend this unmemorable western.

Written by famous writer Elmore Leonard (RIP) this is a decent western with Clint Eastwood. His fans should be happy - he's badass as always . You can't hurt him and you can't outsmart him. In this one he doesn't play unnamed stranger . His Joe Kidd is an ex-bounty hunter caught in the war about property. The villain is played by Robert Duvall. It's a fine performance. Lalo Schiffrin , famous for "Mission impossible theme" , gives this movie some really cool music. There is some nice dialogue here. The movie isn't boring , because it's short (not even full 1hour and half) and well paced. There is some action and two memorable scenes - with the train and the pot of stew.Overall , it's nothing spectacular . If you're a fan of Eastwood or westerns you probably will be happy . The rest might skip this one. I give it 6/10.