How seriously can you take a movie that opens with Clint Eastwood as a minister who needs to dodge bullets halfway through his sermon? Not very - but this film fools you. Thunderbolt & Lightfoot easily makes the 191 Movies list because of the terrific action - but it floats to the top because this movie features real characters that keep you interested all the way through. The always-great Jeff Bridges generously under-plays so the chemistry with Eastwood works. The rest of the cast is stellar; George Kennedy as a nasty killer who suffers from asthma (at the wrong moments) - Geoffrey Lewis as a truly unlikely criminal and a great little bit by Eastwood favorite Bill McKinney as a deranged driver with rabbits in the trunk of his souped up muscle car. You watch Thunderbolt & Lightfoot for the action, but you watch it again and again because it's always fun to see how these very odd friendships play out.
This is the blog for 191 MOVIES.COM The site is a list of films you watch a ton of times. Some are classics, some are dumb. But no matter how many times you watch them, they're great. This blog is dedicated to finding out what everyone thinks of these films - and if people have other films they watch a whole bunch of times.
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