Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
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... View MoreJust intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
... View MoreThis is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.
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... View MoreBill Hammond (Noah Emmerich) with four bullet holes makes it back to his wife Jane (Natalie Portman,co-producer) and warns her the Bishop boys are coming. Jane tries to get help but her husband has a bounty on him. She eventually gets help from Dan Frost (Joel Edgerton) a man who she was once engaged. We know it is New Mexico 1871 and everything else is a mystery. Who are the Bishop boys? What is the history of this conflict? We are feed the information slowly getting half the story at about 30 minutes and the other half at about an hour.This is a fairly typical western. There is some shooting, killing, horses, and drama. I thought there was too much drama. Natalie Portman reminded me of Demi Moore, tough girl in her performance. Yes, Jane got a gun, but that wasn't overly significant to the tale. I think the author may have been influenced by the Aerosmith song, which didn't play during the closing credits either, but I couldn't help thinking about it. The mystery aspect and flashbacks ate up much of the movie as we awaited the final confrontation with over formula results.Guide: F-words. Implied rape. No nudity.
... View More"Unforgiven" meets "True Women." The worst thing about this movie is the title. The implication is that, once her husband went down, Jane grabbed a gun and did a lot of her own fighting, but as shown by the altercation with the cretin in the back alley, she needed more help even though she was packing heat. The movie can't decide if it's mainly Jane's story, or that of Jane and her former fiancé, Dan Frost, teaming up to protect her wounded husband and defend their hardscrabble ranch against a band of demented desperados. Considering the trouble this film went through in its opening days of production, with the director quitting and new actors having to take roles when others dropped out, you can see why Natalie Portman (who co-produced it) had such a sour expression most of the time.
... View MoreFirst off, I'm not a fan of this genre - it has to be a really good story-line to keep me watching a western! At the beginning of the movie I started to get that itchy feeling, that this was going to follow the same route and lose me by halfway. Instead, surprisingly, it had me hooked when Joel Edgerton's character, Dan Frost, made his entrance. The movie isn't anything that hasn't been done before, in one guise or another, there is nothing original about it, and yet it grew on me. The central characters were good ones and both Natalie Portman and Joel Edgerton were excellent, as was Ewan McGregor, as the requisite evil gang-leader, who amazingly, I hadn't even recognised until after the movie and I looked at the cast list - what a great job he did! The little twist at the end of the movie made it for me, but enough about that. This movie joins a select few Westerns in my collection and whether you are a fan of the genre or not, you will enjoy this.
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