Blu-ray Review – Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw

Mark L. Lester, the director of "Truck Stop Women," returns the drive-in circuit with 1976's "Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw," which invests fully in violence and sex to help attract an audience. An updated take on western formula, the feature is a wily offering of exploitation cinema, resting somewhere between a sobering exploration of American violence and a broad sampling of bare breasts and gunplay, with Lester unsure where exactly he wants to land with this effort. Playing into era-specific appetites with crashing cars and stunning women, "Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw" satisfies with the basics, collecting enough extremity to entertain as intended. Anything thematically deeper tends to dissolve in Lester's hands. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com