Open range, a western, oh totally not for me was my immediate reaction. Fortunetly I have a subscription cinema pass and pay x amount of pound a month for unlimited visits to the cinema. Since Im payin for it might as well use it. So although open range wouldnt have been a film Id normally have sought to see, I was plesantly surprised.
Basic storyline goes, 3 free grazers (ppl who live off the land) go from town to town grazing their cattle on land come across a town where free grazers arent welcome. Unfortunetly for them a storm is coming there way and so are forced to stay there for the night, in the morning the carriage is stuck in the grass due to high levels of water, so they try pull it out but as expected something goes wrong, they have to go into the town to get the goods needed to fix it before they can be on their way. Sure enough problems arise and there is a fight and so the 3 seek the help of the local doctor who is only too willing to help and actually give them a chance.
Not too sure how typical westerns turn out as this is one of the only westerns i have actually sat through.
Wont ruin the ending but all is well after a few deaths and fights (typical western)
The big showdown at the end is sublime!! Typical western stuff but in my opinion well worth the watch.
Sorry I havent said more about it, just dont want to delve into the story too much as not everyone wants to know a scene by scene itinerary of what happens.
So in my opinion, one to watch and definetly one to buy (on my part)
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Open Range [2004]
Released almost exactly 11 years after Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, Kevin Costner's Open
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Range proved yet again that the Western is the classic American genre. Costner's first film since 1997's ill-fated The Postman returns the actor/director of Dances...
Open Range [2004]
Released almost exactly 11 years after Clint Eastwood'sUnforgiven, Kevin Costner'sOpen
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Rangeproved yet again that the Western is the classic American genre. Costner's first film since 1997's ill-fatedThe Postmanreturns the actor/director ofDances With ...
OPEN RANGE
A group of men looking for peace and quiet, and an escape from their past lives as gunmen,
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drive a herd of cattle across the plains. When their paths cross a big-shot local rancher known as Denton Baxtor, the past catches up with the former cowboys and...
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