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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (February 3/07)

Lightweight almost to the point of distraction, The Good Guys and the Bad Guys stars Robert Mitchum as James Flagg - an aging Marshal who must team up with an old foe (George Kennedy's Big John McKay) after learning of a feared outlaw's (David Carradine) plans to rob a local bank. Although Mitchum and Kennedy are quite good together, The Good Guys and the Bad Guys remains strangely uninvolving throughout its mercifully short running time - a problem that can be primarily attributed to the overwhelmingly fluffy vibe that director Burt Kennedy has hard-wired into the proceedings. The filmmaker's ill-fated decision to emphasize the more comedic elements within Ronald M. Cohen and Dennis Shryack's screenplay certainly doesn't help matters, nor does the inclusion of a slapsticky, egregiously frenetic finale that finds virtually all of the movie's characters chasing a runaway train. It's clear that everybody involved with the production had a great time making it, but that simply doesn't disguise the film's inherently superfluous nature.

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