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One of my all time favorites.

Fresh and Exciting

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

I was surprised to see a movie with Lee Marvin and Paul Newman on the shelf. I'd never heard of it. Cool, let's try it.What a waste of time. The only 2 movies with stars in it that i imagine would be worse are "Pluto Nash"and "Leonard Part 6". Heck, the supporting cast included Gregory Sierra, Wayne Rogers, Hector Elizondo and Strother Martin. I like Rogers, but I didn't buy into his performance for even one second. The cast was not enough to save this Turkey in any manner.The dialog was horrible. The story just never seemed to develop,nor finish. There were 3 scenes with women. Only the scene with the ex wife did anything to advance the story, and that scene was lame.Cinematography? Mostly too washed out. There was one scene in the moonlight that was hilarious. We see him in what appears to be moonlit moment. Cut away, then right back to him and the lighting looks like midday.Carole King did the opening song. I suppose her singing would have fit with what they "wanted" this movie to be. The rest of the score was interesting, but incongruent. Sometimes sounding like Mike Post, sometimes western, some times folk or Mexican.I gave this 2 stars. Thinking back, I'm not sure why i was so generous.

I never thought a movie with Paul Newman and Lee Marvin in the leads could ever move this slow. Half the time they didn't seem to be employing the same page from the script in their scenes together, and it was well into the picture before I was able to figure out that Leonard (Marvin) was actually working with, and not against Jim Kane (Newman). Kane seemed to be conflicted over just about everything in his life, and Leonard used these exaggerated hand gestures every once in a while that seemed unconnected to any thought process he might have had at the time. Just very confusing.Then on top of that you have Strother Martin as their crooked employer and Wayne Rogers as something of a man in the middle to keep things well oiled between Kane and Garrett (Martin). What this all leads to is a massive 'failyuh to communicate', as a Martin character once stated to a Newman character in the much better "Cool Hand Luke".Sorry, but this one just didn't grab me the way I thought it would going in. Quite seriously, the only thing that really sparked my interest was Lee Marvin's musings about colored salt - that seemed to make a lot of sense to me for the reason he gave. When I heard it I wanted to say 'correcto' like the Mexican in the movie, but I never learned that one in Spanish class.

Paul Newman and Lee Marvin of the daily work in the pocket of the Rider to make a existence on the new day's in Horse Riding. The making of the film shortly after the high lights of the Vietnam War gave a lightness to the audience in Newman and Marvin sense of display of Comedy. A old play to the scene came out with Dr Starr - the 1930's Singing Cowboy, Rider and Roper also used in name Dusty Starr, who could wrestle ~ resell ~ a cow in seconds as well as with a fist in fights he added to the fight for a pocket full of money to exist on. Lee Marvin comic approach to has own acting on how to talk to Paul Newman with hands and arms and his shoulder in how to attend to daily existence in gaining their own money for their pocket.

How could a western miss with Paul Newman and Lee Marvin co-starring? Unbelievably, it sure did with "Pocket Money". I can still recall the letdown I felt as I walked out of that theater. When I got to work the next day and reviewed it to co-workers, some of them went to see it just because they didn't think those two stars could make a movie as bad as I was rating it. They also declared it a real DUD. Years later when it was shown on television, I thought maybe it would seem better with age and a more mature mind. Did it? NO. I still had a "Well, DUH!" feeling when it ended. When anyone asks what was the most disappointing movie I ever saw, "Pocket Money" is always the first one to come to mind.