Review of McQ

McQ (1974)
4/10
An old, old man trying to be Clint.
14 November 2023
Even getting into a drive-in theater to see this for free wasn't enough for me to like it. From what I can remember - and I can remember only seeing this movie once in it's entirety almost 50 years ago - John Wayne screamed old man, which my girlfriend at the time mentioned a lot as we watched this flick. It was laughable watching him try to squeeze himself in and out of that Pontiac, walk or even run for more than a few seconds and act like a 'ladies man' which is the one thing he could never do, even in his 20's let alone in this movie when he was at medicare age. At any rate, you should always know when to 'hang it up' whether you're a pro sports figure, singer or old cowboy movie star. Wayne was operating on one lung by this time from decades of his 3 pack a day habit and the other lung was wracked with COPD. If he wanted to continue working, or trying to work, while his body was basically falling apart that's his business. Unfortunately for his fans, and I was sort of one when I was younger, watching this ultimate macho man try to act like he did decades before was kind of sad. The shoot out at the end is the best part of the film as far I'm concerned, so keep that FF button handy, because the rest of this movie is just 'meh'
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