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3:10 to Yuma? ~ You can MISS this train....

posted 12 years ago by guyinnanaimo
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Seems gritty enough, but sadly, this is just a rather DULL movie.
Bale is good, the general cast is good, but Fonda?
I waited for him to stagger on to a motorcycle...{LOL}...he's not much of an actor.
And, forgive me, but in every one of those nightly campfire scenes, I thought I could hear them FARTING.
And why can't bad guys BE bad guys?
Like Ben Foster was in this one...just a bad guy!
Do they change when they're big stars playing bad guys?
Sorry, but Crowe just doesn't cut it as a bad bank robber guy...I lost interest in the movie because of this.
The movie sucks...dialogue is often stupid, and the talking when all the shooting is going on, is indeed stupid.
Folks...forget this stinker...it's a 3 out of 10, and that's GENEROUS!
'You can't HANDLE the truth!'

[–] Zanza8 12 years ago

You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but I think it was a great movie.

http://thinkingoutloud-descartes.blogspot.com/

[–] LeCeche 12 years ago

I agree OP. I saw this when it came out in theaters and it was a waste of a very talented cast and what could have been a cool premise.

[–] masterjedi-2 12 years ago

I must completely agree with the original poster on this. It's a FORGETTABLE movie in every way. What starts out as a promising Western flounders in execution.

SPOILERS BELOW...

We're to believe that a man with a wooden leg (who stumbles in the first scene of the movie) can jump across rooftops by the end? Please...I can only suspend my disbelief so much.

The movie quickly devolves into a flick where you see a character die off about every 20 minutes, just for the sake of doing so. And naturally, that leaves Crowe and Bale to run to the finish line as expected. But Bale has to be so honor-bound to finish his mission, he's willing to die to get the job done. And this leaves his wife a widow and his son without a father. Idiocy.

Bale and all of the other characters die for NOTHING.

[–] jet19957 12 years ago

Did we watch the same movie? Yes the leg is unrealistic, but compared to nearly every other modern day film suspending that much disbelief is nothing.
And he completely died for a reason, did you miss the conversation with the lawman? He's giving the family enough money to last them a while, while also teaching his son a lesson of moral. You're entitled to your opinion, but I took it in a completely different way.