Maverick (1994)

Release date: 1994-05-20
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Richard Donner
Production Co: Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions, Icon Entertainment International, Icon Productions
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller, Western
Rating: 7.0/10
Length: 2h 7min

Storyline

Maverick is recreated from the character James Garner created in the 1950s TV program. Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them. He needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a Winner Take All poker game that begins in a few days. He tries to win some, tries to collect a few debts, and recover a little loot for the reward, all with a light hearted air. He joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvelous, though fake, southern accent as the two both try and enter the game.

Plot Keywords

cowboy, pistol, shotgun, repeating rifle, sawed off shotgun, ambush, street fight, passionate kiss, father son relationship, quick draw, gunslinger, revolver, brawl, fistfight, noose, sex in bed, outlaw gang, showdown, shot to death, cabin

Short Review

The script is notionally based on the old television series of the same name, but the screenwriter William Goldman, has produced something depressingly up to date in its incoherence, its crisis of confidence served up with a sickly grin.