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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 12345
Released: November 8, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A rancher, a rustler, and a regulator face off in Arthur Penn's eccentric western. As a cover for their horse thievery, a gang of Montana rustlers, led by the laid-back Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson), buys a small farm adjacent to the ranch of their latest target/nemesis, Braxton (John McLiam). When the gang leaves Tom on the farm and heads to Canada for another score, Tom takes a shine both to farming and Braxton's rebellious, strong-willed daughter, Jane (Kathleen Lloyd). The slightly loco Braxton, however, hires the psychopathic regulator Lee Clayton (Marlon Brando) to root out the rustlers. With a series of unorthodox methods (and costumes), Clayton hunts down Logan and his gang one by one, even after Braxton fires him, but Logan isn't about to let Clayton (or Braxton) make him obsolete.
The Missouri Breaks Reviews:
OFFBEAT WESTERN A MUST FOR BRANDO AND NICHOLSON FANS 
2009-10-24 - Blasted by critics when it first came out in 76 but still a Western I have always enjoyed watching. Three reasons: an audaciously offbeat and disturbingly singular performance by Marlon Brando; an excellent one by Jack Nicholson; fantastic supports from vet pros Harry Dean Stanton and Randy Quaid. Don't expect gunfights, saloon brawls or O.K. Corral stuff here. This is a different type of Western---long, slowly and languishly paced but stark, realistic and callously brutal. All about a gang of horsethieves and the horse baron out to stop them. After the bunch murder his ramrod, the old boy decides to hire a "regulator" to eradicate them---seems there's nothing he hates more than a stinkin horse thief. A "regulator" is basically a hitman, or better, an exterminator. Brando plays regulator Robert E. Lee Clayton, an eccentric who is an artist at killing---with firearms, knives, fire, even water---and a sadist. He is a marksman, a sniper, an arsonist. Clayton eliminates each member of the gang one by one by devious and clever means---engaging and studying his prey, utilizing disguise of speech and dress and planning their mode of expiration, often actuated at night or in the early morning hours when least expected. Clayton's corpulence, age, insouciance and whimsical demeanor certainly belie his acumen and virulence. This is what makes his character so much fun here. Nicholson plays Tom Logan, the leader of the rustlers. John McLiam is very good as land & horse baron David Braxton, a pompous but vindictive old dude who is just as perverse and evil as the guy he hires. Earthy Kathleen Lloyd is excellent as Braxton's isolated tomboyish daughter. After one of Logan's beloved boys is captured and hung under Braxton's orders he decides to get even by buying land from an unwitting Braxton and wooing his daughter. His plan is to infiltrate Braxton's stead while his boys rustle up everything he's got. Logan, however, starts to like the farming and like the female. Begins to enjoy life as an honest man a bit too much and becomes a trifle aloof from his boys who are beginning to get "regulated". Comes to his senses after close friends Cal and 'Little Tod' [Stanton and Quaid] are stalked and killed by Clayton. Logan now wants payback and goes after Clayton and Braxton. Knows he can't outdo a seasoned killer like Clayton so smartly uses latter's own statagem to get him. He cuts Clayton's throat while the latter lay asleep at dawn---a raw, harrowing scene. Ironically, it's old man Braxton who nearly caps Logan at the end. Film meanders a bit and could have used a little more editing and streamlining but overall a joy to watch hall-of-famers Brando and Nick. Directed by Arthur Penn with the same realism and authenticity and great output from his performers as in his classic BONNIE AND CLYDE, 1967. A must for Brando & Nick fans.
The Missouri Makes! 
2009-06-15 - An overlooked "western" drama of the duel of two men, both of dubious professions portrayed by Nicholson and Brando as if they were born for the parts, is lowkey and brilliantly done. Director Arthur Penn creates a subtle drama of hunter and hunted- and finally the hunted hunter- set in a nearly-unknown part of the West, more about greed and retribution than the two-dimensional traditional gunslinger confrontations from most directors. This film is not to be missed by not only Nicholson and Brando admirers but also by anyone who loves a drama slowly,artfully and carefully tightened to a startling end.
Missouri Breaks - a little strange
2009-05-10 - This is a strange western - Brando and Nicholson in a western that is a little hard to believe but very interesting. Beautiful setting in northern Montana (the Breaks) but Brando plays one of the strangest roles you might ever see - unless you watch Apocalypse Now in which he plays an equally strange role. This is not a common movie but to have both actors in the same movie is simply rare. The title has some objectionable content due to the treatment of the horses in the filming of the movie - not that one can tell watching the movie but animal rights activists have it one their list.
My favorite Marlon Brando movie
2009-04-06 - This is a GREAT movie with Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson. It is a classic. Enjoy!
Foul Mouthed Western 
2008-06-18 - I don't know who gave this movie a PG rating, but they sure missed the mark. In short, if you do not like taking the Lord's name in vain, and coarse language in general, don't waste your time on this movie. It, also, is nothing like the old Westerns where the good guy was good and the bad guy was bad. In this movie, it seems that every one is bad, or willing to ignore morality when it would seem to benefit them at the moment. So much for honesty, character, valor, chivalry or any other virtues; they don't seem to be of concern in this movie.
