Director:
Kevin CostnerGuión:
Craig StorperCámara:
J. Michael MuroMúsica:
Michael KamenReparto:
Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Michael Jeter, Diego Luna, James Russo, Abraham Benrubi, Dean McDermott, Kim Coates (más)Sinopsis(1)
Las praderas del Oeste americano son su hogar. Boss Spearman (Robert Duvall), Charley Waite (Kevin Costner), Mose Harrison (Abraham Benrubi) y el joven "Button" (Diego Luna) son vaqueros libres que guían sus reses por una tierra casi virgen. Juntos intentan dejar atrás un pasado que cada uno prefiere olvidar. Su vida sin ataduras, regida por el honor, la lealtad y la defensa de la justicia, se transformará al ser atacados por los secuaces de un ambicioso ganadero (Michael Gambon). (Filmax)
(más)Reseñas (5)
There is nothing more captivating than a classically constructed story of men who, despite their rudeness, fight for direct ideals of courage and honor. I end up never wanting to leave such an environment, and neither does Kevin Costner. Although I can't point out a single scene that was purposeless or unnecessary, the running time is unbearably drawn out. The added passage after the decisive shootout speaks for itself. All the interiors of the spit-filled saloons, and especially the exteriors of dusty towns and endless plains, are right up my alley, but just watch any part of Dances with Wolves and you too will see that Kevin was in a completely different league.
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Un wéstern pequeño, modesto, íntimo, con pocos personajes y cosas entre ellos. Un guión con una trama más complicada no habría venido mal, pero lo mismo ocurre con el nivel de apreciación del público. Kevin Costner siente la psicología de los personajes y sabe dirigir a los actores. Y no me importa que el cielo del fondo parezca un lienzo de estudio, iluminado por focos. Si hubiera tenido un presupuesto mayor, quizá no habría podido prestar tanta atención a lo esencial.
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The first half is filled with beautiful, almost kitschy imagery (I almost expected a sharp cowboy face to appear and invite me to enjoy a Marlboro) and a free-flowing plot with well-written dialogue and likeable main characters. They aren’t the infallible gunslingers with a colt low at the waist who are so brilliantly parodied in Lemonade Joe, but true cowboys for whom manly honor and honesty are above all else. Duvall and Costner play their roles superbly, and thanks to their performance the viewer easily becomes familiar with their fates and will cheer for them all the more during the final, quite successful shootout. However, I think that the editing scissors could have helped at times, for the sake of more plot build-up, and I also had the impression of a set-up ending at the end. Overall, three and a half *. For the first time in a long time, Kevin Costner at least gave a bit of a flashback to his old days when he charmed the movie world with Dances With Wolves.
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I always knew that Kevin Costner is good, and here he serves a smart film with characters that have proper depth and where the phrase “instant romance” cannot be used. The way the screenwriter develops the characters is surprising, without pathos or unnecessarily extended scenes. And the final approximately 15-minute shootout is really well-crafted.
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An honest western that illustrates in perhaps a somewhat linear (yet basically almost flawless) way that evil must be confronted and fought to the end, even in the face of what seems a losing battle. Overall, this is a story told very slowly and with a wonderful build all the way through, graced in the end by one of the most impressive shootouts I've ever seen. It's very "Costnerian", but I don't mean that pejoratively in the slightest. [80%]
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