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At a time in the West when colonies dreamt of statehood and men forged their own laws with power and pride, a honest rancher is forced to face the injustices of a power-hungry neighbor. John Cusack st...( read more 
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MCT:August 9, 2008Not until you witness the obstacles that this country have overcome to become what it is today, you will begin to appreciate what you have.
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MCT:June 10, 2008I wish I could watch every movie ever made but I sadly don't have the time. I'm not interested in this movie because I don't think I'll like it or don't know enough about it to think I might like it. I may still end up seeing it some day though.
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MCT:February 23, 2008This film is a typical western with some very beautiful photography. It actually feels like Wyoming, the dry land, the snow, the dust, the vegetation. The problem is it is never very engaging. The first 45 minutes are flat while the last hour or so is a morally confused mess preaching vigilantism and overkill.
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MCT:July 20, 2007such a good film! never even heard of it before but watched it abroad and it had me crying my eyes out, john cusack avenges the death of his wife, and ends up getting in too deep. really touching film
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MCT:May 7, 2007
After a rich Englich chattlemen takes two of his horses for payment and hurt the pure stallions he goes a a bloody rampage
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MCT:April 26, 2007
I hate John Cusack. He turns in the exact same performance in every single role with his blank stare, fast delivery and shoulder-shrugging indifference and somehow manages to receive extreme critical acclaim. He is miscast in the central role here, but surprisingly tries to do something ever so slightly different. I didn't buy it for one second, but hey, it's John Cusack. I never would have.
This film is a typical western with some very beautiful photography. It actually feels like Wyoming, the dry land, the snow, the dust, the vegetation. The problem is it is never very engaging. The first 45 minutes are flat while the last hour or so is a morally confused mess preaching vigilantism and overkill.
Part of the problem is the direction. It is pedestrian, bland, never involving nor, of course, even remotely exciting, and the rest of it is probably the script. It makes very little sense for Myrl to do what he does when there are many other ways he could have achieved the exact same result, his speech on how the law failed him (echoed by John Goodman's character) is ridiculous, and by the end of the film he has done far worse than Henry Ballard ever did to him, despite what the direction and the score would like to have you believe.
I can't say it was exactly a disappointment (it's a John Cusack vehicle, after all) but it was certainly not very good. -
MCT:February 12, 2007
This movie rocks. The ending is not happy, but the story is wonderful...peace of trivia...Dick Cusack, John and Joan's dad, wrote and made a cameo in this move. Dick Cusack also played the doctor in While You were Sleeping.
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