The Wind And The Lion is a neat mixture of romanticization and realpolitik [...] The film is memorable for its action scenes [...] but also for the reflective moments from which those action scenes are born.

The script is an embarrassment the directing is stilted; the editor must have felt he was watching a Ping Pong match.

A fascinating movie which brilliantly synthesizes traditional romantic concerns with an admirable understanding of American political ideology.

Milius is in love with everybody, there are no villains, and so there is no excitement.