I wasn't really too sure what to expect from this film, but was very pleasantly suprised at how good it is.
The story basically (don't want to give anything away) follows 4 cowboys driving their herd across country. They stop off near a small town for supplies and one of them is attacked in a small town by the marshall under the orders of a local Ranch owner who doesn't like free rangers (people like Duvall, Costner & co who drive their cattle over open country and let them feed where ever they wish).
Things get very hairy when one of the free rangers is killed and another wounded badly. Costner and Robert Duvall are out for vengence on the Marshall and the Ranch owner.
The acting in this film is magnificent and Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall play off each other very nicely.
This is not an action film at all, it's a drama with some action and romance thrown in, like your classic old western really.
The people and the sets in the film seem very authentic, everything looks gritty, muddy and dirty. The gunfights are rather realistic too, people shooting at each other with revolvers and missing most of the time (as they were very inacurate weapons at anything more than about twenty feet)
All in all I enjoyed the film though like a lot of Costner films I found it went on a bit too long as it neared the end, still very good though.
The special features on the dvd were ok too, I enjoyed the deleated scenes with introductions by Keven Costner.
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