RE: Enjoyable, as you say, not great.....indeed

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Posted by townsend (A) on October 5, 2008 at 11:07:58

In Reply to: Enjoyable, as you say, not great..... posted by afilado on October 4, 2008 at 20:07:24:

I actually thought Mortensen played a far more interesting character than did Harris. In general, I do like Ed Harris in the movies . . .

Zwellweger was almost nauseating and almost derailed the movie (I don't care whether the movie was true to the book or not, I only saw the movie). Too pouty, whiney, annoying . . .

The most interesting third was the middle third, which began by transporting the convicted man by train. In fact, I wish that had just expanded on the middle third for an entire feature film.

I did appreciate the "realistic" gunfights . . . usually it only takes one-bullet-per-participate.

2 and 3/4 stars

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The local paper gave it a similar review - Mike K 06:55:20 10/05/08 (2)

You have........ - afilado 09:21:46 10/05/08 (1)

Thanks for those kind words. I shall check out the recommend * - Mike K 10:29:57 10/06/08 (0)

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Agree with most of this... - afilado 14:40:09 10/06/08 (2)

RE: Agree with most of this... - jamesgarvin 15:22:05 10/07/08 (1)

Thanks, James. I'll look into that. - afilado 15:39:06 10/07/08 (0)

RE: Enjoyable, as you say, not great.....indeed - townsend 11:07:58 10/05/08 (0)

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