watch this movie be truly a painful experience . billy the kid be an insignificant and unremarkable and pimply face and orthodontia challenge 21 year old thug that be remember today because the new mexico department of tourism spends hundred of thousand of dollar every year to make sure that we do . i do get peckinpaugh revisionist history . regardless and when 37 year old kris kristofferson appear on screen a the 21 year old kid and reality take flight . kristofferson and already sport a jowl and drawling in a voice that have be drown in whiskey and fry by too many cigarette ( in real life ) and display the act range of a tree . james coburn . please . . . . would someone please tell me what peckinpaugh saw in this hack . folk and peckinpaugh die young about 59 and he get a fairly late start in the movie . his body of work be small and very small . his wild bunch be a masterpiece on any level and but please do not try to elevate his other work more than it deserve . the iron cross have it moment and despite it weird end and but most of peckinpaugh cinematic work be pedestrian . period . end of report .