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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 89Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenWonderful but improbable tale about a group of mercenaries sent to Mexico to rescue their employer's wife from bad man Jack Palance.
- 88Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonExciting, beautifully shot '60s political western. [10 Apr 1998, p.M]
- 80The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelThere's something to be said for this kind of professionalism: the moviemakers know how to provide excitement and they work us over.
- 80Washington PostHal HinsonWashington PostHal HinsonWritten and directed by Richard Brooks, the picture is more style than content, but what style.
- 75Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThis 1966 film was eclipsed in many people's minds by The Wild Bunch three years later, but it's a good, solid job, and with Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, and Woody Strode, how could you miss?
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineA truly adventuresome, action-filled film that is played more for thrills than for conveying a story, The Professionals offers a field day for Lancaster, Ryan, Marvin, and Strode.
- 60Time OutTime OutBrooks could certainly write a line and direct action, but his taut and disillusioned yarn of American mercenaries intruding into the Mexican revolution to "rescue" Cardinale had only a couple of years in critical favour before it was comprehensively eclipsed by Peckinpah's ostensibly similar The Wild Bunch.
- 50The New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe scenery provided for this picture is clearly more profound than the script, and the sense of magnitude in the environment more engrossing than that in the plot.