Monday, March 30, 2009
3:10 ot Yuma
I really am not a fan of westerns. Ys i do enjoy the occasional John Wayne movie, but as far as anything in the past decade I'm not an avid fan. I must say that I was drawn to this movie by the great reviews and trailers. Plus I know that Russel Crowe and Christian Bale are bound to give a half decent performance, but on this one I was completely wrong. They gave amazing performances. Crowes character tried to get into everyone's head and mess with their minds. He seemed to me like he was a crosse between John Wayne and Hannibal Lecter. As the film opens yyou see he is a rutheless outlaw who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. Christian Bale is a poor hard working rancher who puts his family before himself.When the two meet it becoems apparent that he has to do something drastic to save his land from a corrupt official. He volunteers to escort Wade (Crowe) to Yuma via a 3:10 train. Along the way the encounter Apaches and corrupt mine workers. Through this time both characters bond and develope a sort of mutual understanding. In the end they are hold up in a hotel room waiting for the train, but Wades gang has found them and prepare togive Bale and his friends the fight of his life. I incredibly enjoyed the well staged acton sequences, and intense chases, but these are not the films only strengths. As I said before the acting was amazing, and the directing was fantastic. The only issue I have with the film is its ending (which i will not discusshere for fear of spoiling it for others) All in all it was a great movie and I highly recomend it. If you want my opinions on the ending read my next post.
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I, as well, am not a big fan of Westerns and rarely watch them. This movie, I thought was rather good, however. Crowe and Bale gave great performances and most of the story was compelling and well-done. I saw it awhile ago so my memory is foggy but I do remember liking the ending of the film although I would be interested to read why you didn't like it. I don't remember it being a perfect movie and remember finding a couple of flaws in it but overall I felt it was a strong film, nothing spectacular but I enjoyed myself and the especially the interaction between Crowe and Bale. Nice review Rob! I would also recommend seeing this movie, if my memory serves me correctly.
ReplyDeleteI really love this movie more for the performances than anything else. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are two of the best actors working today. But I actually saw the original movie from 1957, and I think I liked that one better. I usually like originals better than remakes, though, so take that for what its worth I guess.
ReplyDeleteI liked this film as well, but like Shiran, I enjoyed the 1957 version a bit more. For this version, characters and plot elements were added to make the film a bit too long. In the original, it took the characters about 15 minutes to arrive at the train station. In the new one, it took about an hour. I also believe the original trumps this one in terms of the ending. The ending of this film was depressing, and didn't give off a very good message. The original, however, was much more upbeat and thus more enjoyable. Still though, watching this film by itself, I enjoyed it very much.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I just found something very ironic about this. You accidentally spelled it 3:10 ot Yuma instead of 3:10 to Yuma. If you are to look at that in Russian, since ot means from you actually wrote the exact opposite of the movie, namely 3:10 from Yuma. I'm not insulting you by any means but when I just read it again, it made me laugh.
ReplyDeletewow that actually is really funny not going to lie!
ReplyDeleteThis one bored me. It went on too long and didn't go anywhere. And I can't remember a single scene, so it really dropped from my consciousness. Ok, you guys. I am going to show the best western ever made next week or the week after. It's called Unforgiven, and if you don't like it, then you truly don't like westerns.
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