Advantages: Greatactingsanddirecting Disadvantages: Very long, simple plot
...review, I would say that Open Range is a recommendable film, with great directing and acting. The plot is not overly complicated, rather simple, in fact, and follows many other films with a similar plotline. This does not stop the film being good, but limits its potential, as the combination of cinematography, directing and poignant acting is smooth, and you feel they could have given more with a more adventurous tale. Be prepared to settle in for ...
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Advantages: Modern film techniques help bring added realism. Disadvantages: No big cowboys and Indian battles.
...their two helpers) who use open land to graze there herd. After pleasantly doing this for some time, they come to a town (with a particularly bad landowner, Michael Gambon) which doesn't want them using 'their' land for grazing. Costner and Duvall disagree about this and a showdown ensues with the town’s bad-folk; Gambon and the corrupted Sheriff. Bad things are done by both sides in the coming dispute and fights, but Costner/Duvall seize the moral ...
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Advantages: Duvall is great and the scenery is breathtaking Disadvantages: Gambon & Benning's Characters
...complicated and didn't need explaining
America's open range - a historical journey back in time to the real open range of the 1880's, narrated again by Costner. This was interesting and informative if a little short.
Deleted scenes again with Costner (he really does like the sound of his own voice)
Storyboarding: open range
Music Video Montage
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Running time: 133 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 anamorphic wide screen
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Advantages: Seemed very authentic Disadvantages: A bit slow
...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 ...
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Advantages: Easy to follow and great acting Disadvantages: gun fight could have been more realistic
This movie reminded me off the old fashioned westerns of yesteryear.
It starts off with 4 cowboys driving their herd to market and the troubles that they encounter on route. Robert Duvall plays Boss with Kevin Costner playing Charlie his sidekick. The trouble starts when Mose (one of the group) calls into a town for supplies and doesn't return. The town is run by a currupt Sherrif who is controlled by an evil rancher played by Michael Gambon, ...
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Advantages: Good old western with Robert Duvall Disadvantages: Gambons character/accent/acting
4 horsemen, 3 who have worked with each other before and have built up a considerable working alliance and trust and a young apprentice eager and willing to please but still very much on the outside.
These men are Freegrazers, they take their cattle across the prairies grazing as they go. The film is set in a time when ranchers were starting to stake out land and claim and enclose. Freegrazing is legal but as in the Wild Wild West towns often had ...
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We welcome back Kevin Costner after a short directorial break with the beautifully shot western 'open range'.
Those that are more accustomed to the bum numbing memories of enduring the postman and dances with wolves will be pleasantly surprised by this latest effort.
Open range boasts a cast of senior hollywood talent, showcasing the acting skills of Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner (generously giving himself only second billing), Annette Bening ...
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Advantages: Great Storyline Disadvantages: The fact that it was a western put me off
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 ...
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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...
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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...
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...
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