The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford details

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Formats: 15 DVD, Blu-ray
Starring: Casey Affleck, Zooey Deschanel, Ted Levine, Brad Pitt, Mary-Louise Parker, Sam Rockwell, Michael Parks, Sam Shepard
Director: Andrew Dominik
Genre: Action/Adventure - Epic, Westerns
Studio: WARNER BROS
Collections: Top 400 All-Time Rentals
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
15 Feature

DVD Information

Run time: 2 hours 40 minutes
Rental release: 31 Mar 2008
Main languages: English, English Audio Description
Subtitles: English, Arabic, Hebrew, Icelandic
Hearing impaired subtitles: English
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Most helpful review The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

  • Waste of time

    Rated - 0.0 stars  
    By a customer from St. Albans , 09 Dec 2007

    [Highly rated reviewer]

    There is a good story hidden somewhere in this film, but please don't waste almost 3 hours of your life trying to find it. Brad Pitt is rubbish, and so are most of the other actors, easily the worst film I have seen this year.
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  • Death Becomes Him

    Rated - 3.0 stars  
    By Robinski (165 reviews) from Glasgow , 15 Jun 2013
    Rather grim and joyless tale from writer / director Andrew Dominik, starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck. There are powerful performances from the leads and a talented cast of players, but the real star is Roger Deakins' cinematography, and it is just as well that the film looks and sounds beautiful, because there is little to admire in any of the characters, despite what are clearly skilled performances. No doubt, this can be considered a suitably accurate portrayal, but does it make for rewarding viewing and a positive audience reaction? Setting aside the ability of Hollywood to repeatedly cast gangsters as colourful rogues, or at best, misunderstood or conflicted, rather than the killers and thieves that they are, there is still no-one here to root for, so when this or that character meets his end from time to time, don't be surprised to feel little but an abstract curiosity about the mechanics. As the film rolls on into another hour, even Mr. Deakins' beautiful pictures lose their ability to redeem the unrelieved uniformity of the pacing, and when there is an injection of tension at the promised conclusion, the discovery that this was not the end, but only an end was, for me, a disappointment. It is easy to admire style, but for true enjoyment, there must be substance, conflict, emotion. Where these are attempted by this story, it usually misses the target, and the surfeit of moodiness and brooding disquiet becomes wearing after a while. The script is unremarkable, and few of the cast are given much to do beyond spitting out some western stereotypes in a studied drawl. In the end, it seems reasonable that we take from the piece that the old west was a cruel and dangerous place, with more than its fare share of cruel, dangerous and greedy individuals, unwilling to make their way in the world through honest toil, and unwilling to respect the lives and property of others, but watching them kill each other for 160 minutes, no matter how beautifully filmed, is not an edifying experience.
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  • Quite simply.....an artist at his finest

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By Big__Al (36 reviews) , 11 Jun 2013

    [Highly rated reviewer]

    What can I say?! An absolute awesome effort by a relatively unknown director. The film has been described as one of the most authentic re-tellings of the Jesse James story (by the James surviving relatives themselves) and it did not disappoint. Such an intimate and wonderfully shot (the cinematography is beautiful) film - I never thought the material could be presented with so much realism. The acting was top notch esp. from Pitt and the outstanding Casey Affleck. I was just stunned by the way the ending of the movie was presented - the narration and filming were interlaced so well, not to mention the score e. g. the track 'Song For Bob' that brought out all sorts of emotions. Unbelievable.
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  • Documentary narrated in places by Bob Ford

    Rated - 3.0 stars  
    By thecuckoo (107 reviews) , 01 May 2013
    A rather long slow and at times tedious film about the James Gang and then life after it for Jesse. Seen through the eyes of Bob Ford and the life he had after he shot Jesse.
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  • Outstandingly good.

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By a customer , 28 Apr 2013
    Ignore the Most Helpful Members Review, this is a beautifully shot film, with great performances. Casey deservedly was nominated for an Oscar, a long but never boring piece of cinema.
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  • Slow boring and a waste of time

    Rated - 1.0 star  
    By chawillia (12 reviews) from uk , 05 Feb 2013
    Overly longwinded and far too dragged out. I dozed off twice and when I woke up nothing seem too have changed in the plot. Could not watch to the end as it was sooo slow.
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