USA
Feature Film
Director: James Mangold
Writers: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Halsted Welles, Elmore Leonard
Cinematographer: Phedon Papamichael
Composer: Marco Beltrami
Cast: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Logan Lerman, Dallas Roberts, Ben Foster, Peter Fonda, Alan Tudyk
This well-made, testosterone-dripping adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s short story is illogical, clichéd, rather silly, and sentimental, but also suspenseful, well acted, interestingly scored, strikingly shot, and, above all else, compelling: in short, a flawed but, nevertheless, entertaining western. Iain Stott
Feature Film
Director: James Mangold
Writers: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Halsted Welles, Elmore Leonard
Cinematographer: Phedon Papamichael
Composer: Marco Beltrami
Cast: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Logan Lerman, Dallas Roberts, Ben Foster, Peter Fonda, Alan Tudyk
This well-made, testosterone-dripping adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s short story is illogical, clichéd, rather silly, and sentimental, but also suspenseful, well acted, interestingly scored, strikingly shot, and, above all else, compelling: in short, a flawed but, nevertheless, entertaining western. Iain Stott
