Great cinematography, some of the best I've seen, however, the camera work is the movie's shining feature. The rest of the movie is extremely slow paced and almost boring.
July 15, 2008 |  | Lyrical, Maddening, Beautiful, Tiresome, Unforgettable |  |
How a movie can be so many things is a testament to director Andrew Dominik's talent and vision, as well as to his inability to get out of his own way. What is ultimately an engrossing study of two flawed men on a collision course with destiny is weighed down by slow pacing and a failure to recognize that the characters, performances, and story are so powerful, that you don't need to remind the audience that you're taking your time to showcase your own brilliance and pretension. The movie is a cinematic jewel, capturing images that are mesmerizing in their beauty and highlighting the darkness in our hearts. The performances by everyone in this cast are out-of-this-world, but especially by the rich complexity given to the tragic Bob Ford by Casey Affleck. Your patience is paid off nicely in the end with the inevitable, and poetic, assassination and aftermath. You will be moved and you will never forget this journey you went on. You won't be able to stop thinking about it. The movie sticks with you in a way few films do. You will come to appreciate its beauty and courage, and maybe you'll wish that such an unforgettable story had been trusted by its chief storyteller. Maybe the movie is supposed to be a paradox, just as its main characters. Jesse James was psychotic, caring, paranoid, smart, frightening, and faithful family man. Why shouldn't a gorgeous movie about the last days of his life be just as maddening...
The film is made for Blu-ray and should be appreciated on the format if you can. It's worth it.
July 10, 2008 | | Great Actors. Boring Movie! | |
This movie was so boring!! The actors in this movie do the best with what they have. It took me 3 tries before i actually got to sit down and watch the entire movie. Mostly, because i kept getting bored and cutting it off. Brad Pitt carries this movie most of the way but it's entirely to slow paced. This is not a movie, this is actually a documentary pretending to be a movie. They should have made a documentary about the Life and Death of Jesse James. Brad Pitt could have even narrated. That's basically all this is anyway.
July 8, 2008 | | Terrible Brad what were you thinking? | |
I don't know what is going on here but I think Brad got together a bunch of his buddies and made a movie with him in it so they could have a shot at making some money. This is a boring terribly acted movie. I wanted someone to assassinate me just to keep from having to watch this POS. I feel ripped off. I bought the BD because I was duped by brads previous performances and the encouragement of a western genre with Jesse James as the focus.....NOT! I feel so used. I can't take enough showers to get the smell off of me. Anybody want to buy a BD cheap?
July 7, 2008If you don't like this movie, then you are probably not a movie lover. However, if you are someone who appreciates all the composite details of a movie such as the richness of the dialog, the choice of cast, the cinematography and the musical score then this film will stay with you for some time.
The way this beautiful film moves along makes it a haunting masterpiece. It also reinforces that in our overload of entertainment options such brilliant objects can easily be lost in the mud since it only took in $4 million at the box office. Regardless, everyone involved in this shoot knows that they were part of a memorable and wonderful piece of art.
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