 "Variety" wrote, "The two-hour running time is not fleshed out with anything more than scenic vignettes, sometime attempting to recreate the success of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' with an Alan and Marilyn Bergman-lyricked tune and Maurice Jarre's music, sometimes attempting honest spoofing of western, and sometimes trying to play the story historically straight.The overkill and the undertone do it in.