Thunderbolt And Lightfoot Reviews

Average Clint Eastwood Movie

This is a fairly average road movie

Pure Entertainment

This movie is just pure vintage entertainment, the three main characters giving great performances. We need more movies making like this!

[Highly rated reviewer]

Sweets to the Sweet!

'The wolf shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.'

Although ostensibly a rather conventional 1970s heist movie, Cimino's very fine buddy genre offering is more a study of one man's love for another man and the supression of its expression by society's conventions and institutions. At times hilarious, but ultimately quite moving, this is fine stuff with Bridges excellent as the youthful Lightfoot, who's irrespressible charm perfectly counterpoints Eastwood's world-weary, Thunderbolt.

Classic quality

Excellent film, a must for any Clint Eastwood fan or anyone who enjoys a fairly relaxed action movie.

TOP MOVIE !!!

As much an eccentric character study as a road movie, Michael Cimino's directorial debut follows the adventures of a quartet of misfits in their life of crime. Retired thief Thunderbolt (Clint Eastwood) and sweet drifter Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges) meet cute when Thunderbolt jumps into Lightfoot's stolen car to escape a gunman. The pair embarks on an oddball journey to get Thunderbolt's loot from an old robbery before his former associates, the sadistic Red (George Kennedy) and cretinous Goody (Geoffrey Lewis), get to it first, but all four are too late; the one-room schoolhouse hiding place has apparently vanished. So instead, the four play house and work legit jobs while they plot to rob the same place Thunderbolt and Red hit before. Although the plan goes awry, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot discover that they may still have succeeded-or so they think. As the easy-going mediator between the two, Eastwood's Thunderbolt was a move away from his tough cop-westerner image; his audience accepted this then-atypical performance enough to turn Thunderbolt and Lightfoot into a moderate hit. Bridges received his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, but Cimino turned down a subsequent deal with Eastwood, moving instead to his artistic peak with The Deer Hunter (1978) and career nadir with Heaven's Gate (1980).

A good watch

A film with plenty a action which was most enjoyable to watch. Clint Eastwood is usually entertaining and he does not dissapoint in this one

cool

Excellent film, a must for any Clint Eastwood fans

what a brill !!!

right from minute one its a story of a group of guys trying to be the mob and undeniably one of clints best films. some bits are so funny in the film but i give credit to jeff and all the other actors who just gave such a good performance. watch and see.

70s classic

Clint teams up with young Jeff Bridges in this film that combines some funny moments with action in a pretty good plot. It is serious enough to make you think. I hadn't seen it for over 20 years, and it seemed somewhat tougher than I remembered it. Definitely one of better Malpaso films directed by Cimino in good form.

[Highly rated reviewer]

classic

i love this movie would highly recommend, funny, tragic and so well acted