“Butch Sundance And The Wild Bunch” (*1/2 out of four) was a feeble Western about the legendary title character (Ross Jirgl) and the Sundance Kid (Jilon VanOver) and the rest of the Wild Bunch (Geoff Meed, Josh Horton, and others) who pull off a million-dollar train robbery and are then chased to the death by a local sheriff (Jeffrey Combs). To say that this doesn’t even belong in the same category as the 1969 classic (or even the 1979 prequel) is an understatement as film leisurely moves through far-too-familiar Western terrain and simply cashes in on a name, rather than adding to it. Bruce Dern, Dee Wallace, Vic Browder fill out the supporting cast but are wasted in one-note roles. Viewers and fans of the series will likely yell “oh shit!” when they jump into this one.

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