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Maybe.I'm not a fan of "westerns" but this film transcends the genre by combing historical narration, flashbacks, character development, and Oscar performances from some of the cast.
Let's just say the actor in the Affleck family may not be Ben. Casey turned in a brilliantly nuanced performance as Robert Ford (the coward) while Pitt was stood out as the weakest link with his usual "non-nuanced" performance. All the characters were spot-on in what is seemingly an "actor's" movie filled with tight facial shots galore.
Although the film is nearly three hours it moves painlessly along until the undoing of the coward, Bob Ford.
The history of the James Gang was certainly interesting in the fact that most of it was made up to sell dime novels. Bob Ford, as a child, became tangled in the fantasy of being a James "ganger" but proved to strange and odd to ever make the grade. We also see an affable Jesse who loves his wife and kids but has no problem "dispatching" those he doesn't trust.
The film has an "artsy" atmosphere and does (IMO) for westerns what The Thin Red Line did for war movies.
Must see.
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
Edits: 10/29/07
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