3.10 To Yuma
3.10 To Yuma
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BASED on a short story by novelist Elmore Leonard, 3.10 to Yuma is a remake of the 1957 classic film of the same name.
The story is about a small-time rancher who agrees to hold a captured outlaw awaiting a train (the 3.10 to Yuma) to take him to court. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.
Russell Crowe plays the notorious villain Ben Wade, resignedly evil in the polite, upstanding Hannibal Lector sort of way; also a charmer and a thief of the land-mongering Pinkertons.
Crowe dons his most impressive arrogance fittingly for the role, growling his lines and looking like an intimidating cross between King Leonidas from 300 and Crocodile Dundee. The grim absurdity works well; so well that he fast eclipses Christian Bale’s protagonist and fills in as 3:10 to Yuma’s requisite hero figure.
Wade’s reign of twenty-two robberies is thwarted by Dan Evan (Christian Bale, soon to be seen as Batman in the upcoming Dark Knight) a farmer low on his luck and even lower on money for his family of four.
Bale plays a sort of lacklustre character, at least at the beginning. Even his son William (Logan Lerman), a headstrong 14-year-old, sees his father as a broken, play-by-the-rules loser. But throughout the film (without changing style) he becomes more magnetic and self assured.
There are some minor problems with the film i.e. Dan Evans had his leg shot off in the Civil War and he walks with a limp but still seems to be a very good runner. But generally the film plays out in a believable fashion.
As a fan of westerns I never seem to be able to find one that ticks all the boxes for me, 3.10 To Yuma is no exception to this unfortunately, but it does come very close, a lot closer than most westerns in recent times.
All in all it is nice to see that there are still good Westerns being made as it is genre that it would be a pity to lose
The story is about a small-time rancher who agrees to hold a captured outlaw awaiting a train (the 3.10 to Yuma) to take him to court. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.
Russell Crowe plays the notorious villain Ben Wade, resignedly evil in the polite, upstanding Hannibal Lector sort of way; also a charmer and a thief of the land-mongering Pinkertons.
Crowe dons his most impressive arrogance fittingly for the role, growling his lines and looking like an intimidating cross between King Leonidas from 300 and Crocodile Dundee. The grim absurdity works well; so well that he fast eclipses Christian Bale’s protagonist and fills in as 3:10 to Yuma’s requisite hero figure.
Wade’s reign of twenty-two robberies is thwarted by Dan Evan (Christian Bale, soon to be seen as Batman in the upcoming Dark Knight) a farmer low on his luck and even lower on money for his family of four.
Bale plays a sort of lacklustre character, at least at the beginning. Even his son William (Logan Lerman), a headstrong 14-year-old, sees his father as a broken, play-by-the-rules loser. But throughout the film (without changing style) he becomes more magnetic and self assured.
There are some minor problems with the film i.e. Dan Evans had his leg shot off in the Civil War and he walks with a limp but still seems to be a very good runner. But generally the film plays out in a believable fashion.
As a fan of westerns I never seem to be able to find one that ticks all the boxes for me, 3.10 To Yuma is no exception to this unfortunately, but it does come very close, a lot closer than most westerns in recent times.
All in all it is nice to see that there are still good Westerns being made as it is genre that it would be a pity to lose
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