Maverick (1994)

Very best movie i ever watch

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

The reviewers thought that this movie was jilted and had no really direct plot, and that may be so, but I still liked it. Parts of the movie were confusing and didn't really make sense, like what exactly was happening at the end, but it still didn't detract from my enjoyment of the movie.Maverick is based on a old TV series of the same name, and actually has the actors from the original staring in it (especially the guy playing Zane Cooper). The movie is based around Brett Maverick (Mel Gibson) who is trying to get $3000 so that he might enter into a poker championship on a riverboat and the adventures that he goes through trying to get there. Maverick goes through so much, that it would take too long to explain all of them, so I will just settle with talking about Maverick's character The reason I like Maverick is because of Maverick's character. He is a gambler, a smoker, and a champion bluffer. He does not survive in the west by his skill at brawling or shooting people, but rather his wits. He uses his ability to bluff to the extreme, and also his skills such as speaking an Indian language, and the money he has in his pocket, to not only survive, but to survive well off. He may not be a good shot, but he is a very fast draw, and he uses his fast draw to intimidate people into thinking that he is a good shot as well, but what he won't do is get into a direct fight, unless he knows that he is going to win.This is a cool little movie, and quite enjoyable from my end of things. As I said, the ending seems to fall apart as it does not have any reason for why the things happened, and just seems to be quite confusing. If they had reworked the ending, then it would have become a much better movie.

This is a family favorite that I watched again with my girls. Mel Gibson was at his best during the 90s and is thoroughly enjoyable in this tongue-in-cheek, nothing-is-what-it-seems adventure. Jodie Foster as the pseudo Southern belle and James Garner reprising his TV role complement Gibson perfectly. The movie is presented in three acts. Act 1 sets up Gibson as the playful conman trying to earn just a bit more money to enter the "poker match of the century." Act 2 introduces Garner as Gibson's apparent foil trying both to earn the respect of Mrs. Bransford and, we gather, to keep an eye on Maverick. Act 3 is the poker match where everyone shows their true colors.Tons of fun and a great diversion. Eight of ten stars for the pure entertainment value.

Let me say at the outset that Maverick is a hugely enjoyable humorous western. Coming right in the thick of Hollywood mining TV nostalgia in order to put big screen adaptations of popular TV series from yesteryear on screen, it is both a decent homage to its progenitor as well as being a very entertaining movie in its own right. It has a good, unpredictable story, an excellent cast who all perform well (especially the supporting characters), Mel Gibson makes an attractive Bret Maverick, and it is pleasing to see James Garner, TV's Bret Maverick, as Marshal Zane Cooper - such films like to place members of the original cast as a nod of approval, a way of linking the old to the new.And then the makers of this film play a trick on the audience (by which I mean those members who recall the original and are watching this film for the first time). I can't say anything about it other than that it involves confounding expectations, but it is a sheer delight when it dawns on the audience how thoroughly they have been had.I'm not a major Mel Gibson fan, but I do like this movie a lot.

A worthy little film on the far west the way we can see it today, a big farce. Everything is false. A woman is playing poker and picking pockets. A Marshall is robbing the bank of a poker competition, with the agreement of the organizer. All kinds of players who are cheating and trying to win with weapons or violence, or even unfair padlocks. Indians who are organizing wagon train attacks for some dollars and the killing of some fake Indians still for a lot of money from a Russian ambassador. In one word everything is false, a big lie and a big laugh between or among the gun fire and the bullets. And yet all those crooks are trying to steal one another and the only woman in the tale will get the last word, except that she will only get a small part of the stake. Never put all your eggs in one basket. The only real interest of this film is not to show you what the far west used to be but to make you enjoy a comedy about it and that comedy is of course absurd. And that's why it is funny with some good actors who can play surprise and fear and joy and pleasure (you see the one I mean) and horror just as if the rattle snake under their feet were a real rattle snake. It sounds like one all right but it is nothing but a fake plastic rattling device and it won't bite. Even though they had a rattle snake tamer on the team, or rather because. I guess he is the one who dubbed them for the rattling to sound really real. Speaking of Canada Dry. Well we are in the country of the saints, Saint Louis and so many others down to New Orleans.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID