Alicia
I love this movie so much
Curapedi
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
InformationRap
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Roxie
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
monahawk-1
Of course you expect any movie with Robert Duvall to be excellent but even the actors who have not been seen before are outstanding. Not a misstep anywhere. The story continues to surprise without giving anything away and the filming, lighting, sound...all top notch. Over too soon for me.
Matthew Hallsworth
Being a huge fan of the "modern" westerns such as the Lonesome Dove trilogy, Open Range etc..... I was eagerly looking forward to this but couldn't help but feel slightly let down by the end result. Although Duval is as solid as ever everything was too slow moving and the plot development was poor. Its almost as if they didn't have enough story ideas to fill the 3 hours so kept adding in strange little scenes which lasted about 30 seconds or so....Character development was strange too.....after the end of the first episode I commented to my girlfriend that "Big Ears" was supposed to be the bad guy but they hadn't really given any reason why..... then at the start of the second he commits a bad act, almost as if they realised they needed to force something in there to make him feared......The scenery was beautiful, the acting was good by some, limited by others......I didn't really feel ANY empathy or warmth for any of the characters and on the whole it could've been much, much better.
alexandre michel liberman (tmwest)
Apparently, this is a conventional western, where there are the good guys, the bad guys, a herd of horses, and a beautiful scenery. But the film goes further on to give us characters that reach out to us with their feelings and motivations. Print(Robert Duvall) is the ideal good man,who sets out to make a business of selling horses with his nephew, Tom (Thomas Haden Church) but will save some Chinese girls, who were bought for prostitution. Nola Johns (Gretta Scacchi), a prostitute who is running away, joins them. This is making their business venture very hard to accomplish, but Duvall's decision mean that you don't choose what falls on you, but when it does, you have to do the right thing about it. A very good film, that has the technical quality on the level of the westerns of the fifties (they were the best), Great sounds of the bullets, and nice shotguns carried by Print and Tom.
Gunn
You can tell a classic film the first time you see it and that was the case with Broken Trail. The same goes for Dances with Wolves, Lonesome Dove, E.T., Close Encounters, Braveheart, The Godfather series, The Star Wars series, Shawshank Redemption and so many others. This film has all the elements of a classic and more. Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church are terrific as usual as are the rest of the brilliant cast. As for those strange few reviewers on here who found the story dull and boring, what were you drinking or smoking? The story here, like Lonesome Dove, is engrossing, riveting, emotional, sometimes tense, sometimes heart-breaking; I mean, what more could one ask for in a story. The film also had stunningly visual scenery, a fine, servicing music score, authenticity galore in sets, costuming, art direction. Yes, they are making them like they used to. That old line no longer fits. If you think they aren't (making them like they used to) then you're going to the wrong films. I have to give 'props' to the young Asian girls in this film. They were completely charming and made us care about them. BTW, I don't know what 'props' means but I think it fits here. I highly recommend Broken Trail!
