3:10 To Yuma Details

brokeback mountain had tougher cowboys than this film

1 not a western

2 badly acted

3 russel crowe played a soft outlaw who was sensitive and caring.

4 any action was overcome by the strange story line

[Highly rated reviewer]

A Classic remake.

This is a movie that remembers what makes a great Western.

Being a remake of a classic Glen Ford Movie of the same name, this is a good old fashioned western. Christian Bayle is the typical Western hero, one decent man trying to make an honest living in a dirty world.

When his path crosses that of a notorious outlaw(Russel Crowe), he gets the chance to earn much needed money and raise his son's opinion of him, by voluntering to help transport Crowe to meet a train to prison (the 3:10 to Yuma) Problem is Crowe's gang will stop at nothing to prevent him being put on that train.

So follows an all action, tension filled journey across Arizona, where not only are the pursuing outlaws a threat but also hostile Apatches, dodgy railroad builders and almost a whole town are after their blood and the bounty on Crowe.

Crowe and Bayle are perfectly cast as witty,but ruthless outlaw and the honest farmer determed to fulfil his vow to make it to the 3:10 to Yuma with his prisoner.

This is how a Western should be, a simple story of right and wrong, powerfully told. One of the best films I've seen in ages and the best Western in Years.

5 stars