Adiós Amigo

Having previously wrote and produced Boss N!gger-which I highly enjoyed-here Fred Williamson adds director to his resume. Unfortunately, unlike the work I just mentioned, Adios Amigo is more of a mess narratively with Fred a frequent fall guy for Richard Pryor's con games that aren't very funny with Richard's lines mostly improvised. I half thought when Pryor's character would encounter an old man named Noah (Thalmus Rasulala in convincing aging makeup) and his nubile young women that there might be some raunchy humor but results there and pretty much the rest of the picture was tepid at best. Another disappointment was the mention in the credits of The Ink Spots making an appearance but they don't sing here just do some steps and finger snappin' or that's what it looked like to me. Really, I just can't recommend Adios Amigo.

This was HORRIBLE! You may be tempted to watch it for a chance to see Richard Pryor in his prime, but don't. Pryor isn't funny, and the film is a complete mess. It was obviously made very cheaply, but Fred ¨the Hammer¨ seems to have trying to make a bad film here. Everything appears to have been shot in one take, and I'm guessing they didn't even have a screenplay written up for this one. It's just Fred getting into about fifty brawls, and Pryor doing his con man shtick. Don't get me wrong, I like both these guys, but this was a truly terrible film

The movie does have a cool theme song, but you'll get tired of it after about the 40th time!

Written, directed, and starring... Fred Williamson. That's never a good sign, when the same person does everything! He's Big Ben. Co-stars Richard Pryor as Sam Spade. This one also has veteran western actor James Brown. The white guy... not the singer. Ben and Spade get into various, crazy, adventures. Robbing the stagecoaches, starting trouble. It's a much later western, from 1975, filmed in new mexico, according to imdb. It's just silly. Almost blaxploitation, about the same time as all the foxy Cleopatra Jones films were being made. Entertaining. It's showing on (free) roku channel. No biggie. I usually like Pryor, but this one is just long. And boring. Should have hired someone to juice up the script. Skip it.

...but I'm not sure it was supposed to be anything else but bad? Suffice it to say it held my interest. I wonder if this film was made in the wake of the enormous success of "Blazing Saddles?" Not that it has a similar script but it was supposed to be a comedy Western.

Adiós Amigo (1975) is a movie I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a righteous Cowboy whose life gets complicated when he runs into a con man and is continuously blamed for his misdeeds and empty promises. They quickly become friends and work together, but will they stay together or cross each other to get out of their constant jams?

This movie stars is directed by Fred Williamson (One Down, Two to Go) and also stars Richard Pryor (Harlem Nights), James Brown (Sands of Iwo Jima), Robert Phillips (The Dirty Dozen) and Mike Henry (Smokey and the Bandit).

The cast in this is awesome. There are some unique elements like the way the artwork is incorporated into the film. The soundtrack was also pretty good. Pryor and Williamson played off each other well, though I will say there's too many scene where the camera just zooms in on Pryor's face and reactions to circumstances. The opening scene where Pryor meets and frees Williamson was probably my favorite.

Overall this is a fairly average addition to the genre that's still a must see...because anything with Pryor is a must see. I would score this a 6/10 and strongly recommend seeing it once.