For viewers who love heroes and chivalry, you can watch this film

"Open Range" is a very typical, very old-school western. It is a big landlord who oppresses the people, a group of heroes who ask for their lives. It is a pity that the whole film lasts 139 minutes, but the thin plot is not enough to support it. The treacherous horns are typically modeled. The big landlord and the sheriff are on the same scene with the good protagonist, so the audience can only see their ugly faces in front of the protagonist. Motivation, past, character behind? All owe it. There is no empirical mention of how the residents of the town are being squeezed. Only four residents have talked with the protagonist, and the resistance of the residents is not contagious. If the film length is shortened slightly, these defects may not be so obvious.

At this time, the plot began to turn into a straight road. Mose and Button were injured by Baxter's men. Charley and Boss then confronted the sheriff angrily, and found that the sheriff and Baxter were the same. After failing to pay back, the two of them still wandered up and down the town, sometimes staying at the doctor Sue’s house, sometimes chatting in the bar, there was no tension at all, and the movie has been hesitating in this predicament. A sentence of bell. There is a very spicy film review in the United States: "Kevin Costner's new Western is a showdown movie in the mold of High Noon, but because it's Costner, nothing really happens until, like, 3:15." [High Noon is a 1952 Come out of the famous Western film Real-time (real-time), all the plots take place at noon. 〕This may be a bit unsatisfactory, but the film did have the first and only gun battle after a full 100 minutes, and the Hong Kong film audience who was used to watching Wu Yusen or Johnny Tou couldn’t be excited about the gun battle. The two gangs People spend most of their time shooting at each other in the open space.

Suffering from clichés, inadequate descriptions and too long plots, the rhythm of the movie is too slow. I believe that there are only three lovely (lovable, not lovely) protagonists who can regain his score: Qiyun Cossner’s appearance Looks like he was born to play this kind of gloomy cowboy role. He is different from the bohemian prodigal that Clint Eastwood often plays. Although the images of the two are equally handsome, the roles played by Qi Yun are often unbearable in the past. (Charley is also acting this time), always worrying, even more pitiful. In addition, Annette Bening played Sue and Robert Duvall as the friendly and kind Boss, which made the otherwise ordinary gunfights even more suspenseful because the audience was nervous about the lives and deaths of the protagonists.

Kevin Costner's self-directed and self-acted western film "Dances with Wolves" won him the Oscar for best director in 90 years. The limelight was nothing but bad luck, and he was shortlisted for many times and was the worst in Golden Strawberry. Actors, among the major productions "Waterworld" and "The Postman", both encountered Waterloo at the box office, and the box office scores of the remaining films can only hover below 50 million, which is as far apart as the peak period of living. This time I return to his old masterpieces, but regardless of cost, layout and vision, it is difficult to compare with "Dancing with Wolves". Kevin Costner has not attempted to innovate in the field. It can only be regarded as a skit, and it is difficult to bring the western film back to life. . But audiences who love heroic and chivalrous movies will probably add points to this movie just like me.

Rating: 7/10

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