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List Price: $39.99 Our Price: $26.95 You Save: $13.04 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby In Theaters : 07 September, 2007 DVD Release : 08 January, 2008 |
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3:10 To Yuma [Blu-ray] description Here's hoping James Mangold's big, raucous, and ultrabloody remake of 3:10 to Yuma leads some moviegoers to check out Delmer Daves's beautifully lean, half-century-old original. That classic Western spun a tale of captured outlaw Ben Wade (Glenn Ford)--deadly but disarmingly affable--and the small-time rancher and family man, Dan Evans (Van Heflin), desperate enough to accept the job of helping escort the badman to Yuma prison. Wade, knowing that his gang will be along at any moment to spring him, works at persuading the ultimately lone deputy to accept a bribe, turn his back on "duty," and go home safe and rich to his family. That the outlaw has come to admire his captor intriguingly complicates the suspense. All of the above applies in the new 3:10, but it takes a lot more huffing and puffing to get Wade (Russell Crowe this time) and Evans (Christian Bale) into position for the showdown. Mostly, more is less. To Mangold's credit, his movie doesn't traffic in facile irony or postmodern detachment; it aims to be a straight-up Western and deliver the excitement and charisma the genre's fans are starved for. But recognizing that contemporary viewers might be out of touch with the bedrock simplicity and strength of the genre--not to mention its code of honor--Mangold has supplied both Evans and Wade with a plethora of backstory and "motivations." At the overblown action climax, the crossfire of personal agendas is almost as frenetic as the copious gunplay. (By that point the movie has killed more people than the Lincoln County War.) Best thing about the remake is Russell Crowe's Ben Wade, a Scripture-quoting career villain with an artist's eye and a curiously principled sense of whom and when to murder. As his second-in-command, Ben Foster fairly pirouettes at every opportunity to commit mayhem, and Peter Fonda contributes a fierce portrait of an old Wade adversary turned bounty hunter for the Pinkerton detective agency. --Richard T. Jameson More to Explore
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| It's not a classic Western. It's not a revisionist Western. It's not a modern Western. It is a period piece action flick. A pretentious talky artsy period piece action flick. If it were an hour longer, it would be an Epic. A bunch of actors wear western duds and act and talk like they're in a 21st century action flick.
The movie starts with a stagecoach-horses shootout that is exceeded in its coolness only by its complete lack of likelihood. The villain and his posse concoct only the absolutely most unnecessarily laborious, risky and tricky stagecoach heist in the history of cinema. Dead bodies all over the place. Would you join a gang that loses four guys in every heist? The acting is ok. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe do what they can with the weak material and indifferent directing. A lot of dialogue is mumbled, whispered or spoken with a mouthful of food. I don't object to profanity, clever one-liners or sarcasm but I do object to them being used just because they're cool and not because people in the old west expressed themselves this way. The plot consists of Crowe being captured, escaping and being recaptured for about the last 2/3 of the movie. This serves a great excuse for action scenes but thematically serves as an idiot plot. If anyone in the movie acts with any brains or common sense, the entire movie is over in about 30 minutes. Lots of monloguing by good guys and bad. Lots of overly elaborate and easily escapable capture situations. Like any James Bond movie, 3:10 to Yuma is filled to brim with continuity flaws, impossible situations and frantic but unlikely action scenes. At least James Bond flick know what they are and don't try to hide behind "character development" pretensions. The ending is just dumb. Half star for the ok acting, one full star for the cool action and another for the pretty scenery. |
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