Ho hum. There were laughs - mainly of modest sized proportions. Between laughs there were long periods of boredom.

On the good side, Jodie Foster was wonderfully counter typecast as a sweet and comedic actress rather than the usual serious and hard edged characters she normally plays. Granted she was always trying to outwit and cheat Maverick, but on the surface she had this wonderful sweet smile. If you are of the I'd-be-happy-to-see-Mel-Gibson-reading-the-phone-book variety of Mel Gibson fan, then you will like this movie. He too has a nice smile in it and looks great as he always does.

If they had edited down to an hour, it would have been a passable made for TV, Maverick returns for one more episode, sort of show. There is a single simple problem with this movie. In the script by William Goldman, there is almost nothing interesting that happens and what does happen are simple retreads of themes done countless times before. One more Western without much new to say and with jokes that rarely work.