''it's an original, well-acted and good-looking film. I wish Americans remembered how to make Westerns like this.' ' Leonard Maltin
“The ravishing New Zealand landscape portrays the American West'a promising frontier for Mr. Wallis.” ' The New York Times
“New Zealand parody with a tone so deadpan it becomes laugh-out-loud funny.” ' Variety
'Imagine a Kiwi Spaghetti Western filtered through the offbeat sensibilities of early Sam Raimi or the Coen brothers'' ' The Hollywood Reporter
'Kiwi star Holloway is a terrific cowboy…Rademeyer, making her screen debut, is intriguingly beautiful…' ' Variety
'Take Sergio Leone's widescreen spaghetti western fantasias and pour them in a blender, drop in the nihilism of Peckinpah, the genre crashing of Tarantino, and the off-kilter character beats of the brothers Coen, blend on 'high,' then dump the contents across the blasted landscape of a Kiwi desert, and you'll have something akin to Good For Nothing.' ' ScreenCrave
'The result is a winning balance of humor and pluck.' – Variety
'Not only is Good for Nothing one of the best films of the year, but it's also one of the best Westerns since Unforgiven: fresh, funny, wildly imaginative and completely unpredictable.' ' Jim Svejda, KUSC Los Angeles
“…a movie of humble, welcome charms…absurdist revisionism” – The New York Times
'The fun thing about the film is the almost indescribable tone the director achieves. It's not a comedy or a drama. It's not an allegorical tale; it's not a morality tale, and it's not neatly wrapped up for easy consumption and/or delivery. It is a western. It is ambitious, and it's an odd, exotic bird that you simply must watch at the zoo. You'll remember this bird too because it squawks differently than the rest while it's praising the many exotic birds that came before it.' ' Film Slate Magazine
'There are elements of 'High Plains Drifter,' 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' and 'Bonnie and Clyde' flavored with John Wayne tongue-in-cheek toughness and 'Blazing Saddles' irony.' ' Monsters & Critics
'It's ok to be fooled into thinking you're watching an American made western because although Good for Nothing was filmed in Kiwi territory, it looks just like the American west, rugged, with hardscrabble characters, tough terrain, lots of gun slinging and plenty of fists, some of them female fists, a-flying. John Wayne would be proud of the Kiwis for this one.' ' Cinema Way
''as an homage to spaghetti Westerns, it is meant to be seen on the big screen'' ' Leonard Maltin