sentences:  "Variety" praised the action sequences with the cattle stampede but, unlike Crowther, thought there were some issues with the script which they believed "overdevelops some characters and situations, and underdevelops others".Author John H. Lenihan compares the film to "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", in that both films "offer no consolation in their vivid deglamorization of war.The heroes, or antiheroes, of both films pursue selfish pecuniary ventures as a conscious alternative to becoming committed in a pointless destructive war".