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| 3:10 to Yuma |
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  (6/10)
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Runtime: 117 |
| Public Rating: 8.50 (2 votes) |
Director: James Mangold |
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| Genre: Western |
Year: 2007 |
| Writer(s): Elmore Leonard, Halsted Welles, Michael Brandt, and Derek Haas |
| Reviewed by: Friday and Saturday Night Critic |
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I didn’t get it. You read the summary and you know that the movie’s about the unlikely relationship formed between the outlaw (Crowe) and the honest, penniless farmer (Bale) who escorts him to jail. But, as good as Crowe and Bale are – one brooding and romantic, the other simmering and laconic – I wasn’t feeling it. When each does wild sacrifices for the other, I just didn’t feel that they were properly set up. I also didn’t get it when the bounty hunters were escorting Crowe to jail and, even in chains, he was still able to kill them one-by-one. I understood that, but I didn’t understand why not a single bounty hunter even suggested “why don’t we go ahead and kill this guy and save our lives?” Aside from those two issues, “3:10 to Yuma” is a fine, direct western, with brutal gunfights and a dreamy-eyed psycho played by Ben Foster, who matches wits with Peter Fonda’s walk-off-a-gunshot-to-the-gut bounty hunter.
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