Advantages: Greatactingsanddirecting Disadvantages: Very long, simple plot
The other night I put my feet up with a good bottle of wine and scoured my DVD collection for something I was in the mood for. A while back, I had seen 'Open Range' for sale in a Virgin outlet store for £2, and thought 'Why not?' Deciding I was in the mo ...
Advantages: Modern film techniques help bring added realism. Disadvantages: No big cowboys and Indian battles.
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Cowboy/Western films have been especially thin on the ground since the golden era of spaghetti westerns. Kevin Costner has attempted to bring the genre into the 21st century by using modern cinematography with the tried and tested meth ...
Advantages: Costner, great story, very well acted Disadvantages: May be too long for some
Open Range is another of my bargain buys and this time I was very impressed, not only with the fact that Kevin Costner is in the film but it was also a good film to watch. The film stars Boss, played by Robert Duval, Charlie, played by Kevin Costner, ...
Advantages: Duvall is great and the scenery is breathtaking Disadvantages: Gambon & Benning's Characters
This movie is the story of four free grazers (a term I had never heard before) in the American West in the 1880's. The free grazers whose main characters are Boss Spearman (Robert Duvall) and Charlie (Kevin Costner) fall fowl of a corrupt landowner & ranc ...
Jamesconnolly75 11.05.2006 ·Read full review
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Review of Open Range (DVD)
Advantages: Seemed very authentic Disadvantages: A bit slow
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 ...
