A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The first must-see film of the year.

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Not much to be said about this film, though concerning the lives of a Texas Ranger involving ranches and features horses. One would know what this film is about from the trailers and overall tones. The film is a slow paced drama which are good at times but the directing, writing and acting aren't too great. The best scenes involve those with Robert Duvall and James Franco together, while the worst (and a lot of screen time) involves the Ranger character of Sam. The acting here was clear she wasn't much of an actress with her tone and delivery (Her accent was noticeable). She was miscast and her scenes dragged the film down. Also poor acting from the Hispanic mother asking about her son, and a few of the thugs. The climax and overall 'reveal' of the film was very weak, as it just so happens and was dumb. The little subplots with the Maria character didn't really lead anywhere. Also with Josh Harnett's character and his wife, nothing amounted. As he wasn't used as much in the film as we thought we would be. The bright spots as mentioned were the performances of Duvall and Franco, and some nice scenes of the scenery. Wild Horses is a forgettable slow drama.

At first I thought this was going to be the sort of film requiring extra attention on account of being out of the ordinary. It's certainly the latter but I wondered whether the director was deliberately attracting attention by having the whole cast act a bit odd. For 'odd' read 'badly', so many of them were stilted and unconvincing it's as if the budget dictated fifth-stringers only.Then there's the editing. Scenes jump from one to another and within themselves are so unconvincing it detracts from what was a promising script. In small doses you might almost think this was an attempt to portray real life but it's not that at all. It's just bad.I watched it all the way through to see if it improved. It didn't.

Interesting idea for a story, great cast, but.......disjointed script.....and worse......Robert Duvall's wife as a Texas Ranger.....She killed the movie as soon as she walked on scene.....then she proceeded to beat the poor film until it died of exhaustion and sadness....I suppose that nepotism rules here.Waste of an otherwise great cast, good cinematography, and production quality. I wanted to like this film, but simply could not......and I hope that Duvall's beautiful wife stays in his life, BUT NOT ON SCREEN!!!!!

Very disappointing considering the cast involved. Much has been made of the gay theme but this rarely rises to the level of an after school special. Robert Duvall takes credit for the screenplay but I don't know which is worse his writing his direction or his acting which seems phoned in. One character - the woman Texas Ranger wanders in from another movie & I never quite figured out what she was doing there. She didn't seem to know either. There are a lot of Hispanic background actors who take up space as well. Sadly they have very bad accents even when speaking Spanish. I kept waiting for something good to happen some music, some photography maybe some full frontal male nudity with James Franco or Josh Hartnett.