Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

roycline One of the best cowboy movies ever made, plain and simple.

spectrx Another top-notch movie for Selleck and the boys at TNT. I found myself smiling at so many of the genuinely silly and touching moments in here. Definitely more character driven than action-driven, but done perfectly. I have nothing bad to say about this movie, whatsoever. This is what movie-making is all about. As far as I'm concerned, Selleck should have a western in production all the time. I like him in other stuff, too, but since he's the main western actor right now, I'm really focused on them. Some favorite scenes were the section with the train workers and cowboys, and the fight in the bunk-house. Haha great stuff. As others have mentioned, there is a top-notch supporting cast here, which is just icing on the cake.

garatshay Tom Selleck cuts a World-weary figure trying to cope with the changes that take the cowboys' Western World into the 20th century. With a small but talented cast of work-soiled trailmates, he plays out the end of an era in fine form.The beautiful scenery of Alberta substitutes well for the Wyoming Territory it portrays. Sweeping views and mountain backdrops are entrancing. Although some of the characterisations are a little thin, the overall result is a pleasing and inoffensive pastiche of a period that is little dealt with in film.Supporting actors give strong performances and there is little to cause concern to a family audience with both fight scenes and infrequent romantic episodes drawn quite delicately and without excessive detail.

jdbeatty Better than a lot of westerns, but still there's really nothing there.I suppose the irony is that this "vanishing way of life" was really only around for about sixty years (ca 1850-1910). It really wasn't that well known east of Missouri outside the popular press, and isn't now outside the movies.If the western epitomizes the American experience, that's nice, but there have probably been more movie cowboys than there ever were working cowboys. Much more story than practicality. So, if the above is true, the end of the cowboy way of life is... unlamented, unheralded, and probably unnoticed except for a few.