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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Time OutTime OutThe narrative goes a bit over the top in the second half, but it's after a large dose of the best kind of escapist good humour.
- 70The DissolveNathan RabinThe DissolveNathan RabinConvoy has one huge advantage over the song that inspired it: It’s one thing to hear about a mighty convoy, but it’s quite another to see it. There’s a certain tacky, truck-stop grandeur to witnessing so many huge vehicles traveling together like a pack of steel, gasoline-fueled animals.
- 63Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenAt its best, the film finds Peckinpah moving into a new poetry of non-violence, of movement associated with explicit, actualized harmony, but the director doesn’t trust himself, mistaking change of form for impersonal commercial stewardship.
- 63Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrIt looks like a potboiler: only a few of Peckinpah's themes are present, and they're mostly left undeveloped. But Peckinpah can still stage a fight scene better than anyone, and the film establishes its own crazy rhythm as it runs off wildly through most of the southwest.
- 60EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanA noisy but enjoyable destruction derby of a film, sadly with none of the subtlety, invention or skill of Spielberg's Duel.
- 40The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyThe movie is a big, costly, phony exercise in myth‐making, machismo, romance-of-the-open-road nonsense and incredible self‐indulgence.
- 30NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenWhen a director as gifted, personal and eccentric as Peckinpah makes a film as gaseous and ludicrous as this, the temptation is to laugh, but the spectacle of his continuing skid is a sad one. [10 July 1978, p.83]
- 25TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineKristofferson's performance is as monotone as his singing, showing few changes in dramatic emphasis. Unmotivated story riddled with confusion and disarray.
- 20Village VoiceAndrew SarrisVillage VoiceAndrew SarrisSam Peckinpah's Convoy is not merely a bad movie, but a terrible movie. Anyone can make a bad movie--only a misguided talent can manage to be terrible. [17 July 1978, p.44]