51
Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Lots of shooting, galloping, terse dialogue—it is the perfect movie to see in a two-theater town on a Saturday night.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertStrangely enough, the long-awaited meeting between Connery and Miss Bardot is a flop. They look yearningly at each other a lot, and once he puts his arms around her and they fall out of camera range, but otherwise no sparks are struck.
- 40TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThe Connery-Bardot pairing that Shalako offers simply can't pump much life into this otherwise typical big-budget western set in 19th-century New Mexico.
- 40The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelIt's one of those movies in which the hero has to be a man of few words because if he ever explained anything to the other characters they wouldn't get into the trouble they get into that he has to get them out of, and there wouldn't be a movie. There isn't much of one anyway.