Gripping
Matewan review
By
crispin40 from Stirling, Scotland
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1st October 2005
Knowing this was a John Sayles film, we knew we were in for a good one. Especially as Chris Cooper and James Earl Jones were in the cast. We were not disappointed!
Suspect a lot of the scenes were shot in the studio and would have liked some extra material about the fate of the miners and their mines in later years. However, tho I agree with some of the other reviewers that it was a little overlong, it was gripping and held our attention and emotions for the whole time.
I've certainly learned a lot with ScreenSelect - to think that I'd never heard of John Sayles before this time last year!
We began with 'The Sunshine State' -borrowed by chance from the local library and then - thanks to ScreenSelect have borrowed as many of his others as we can. Think that this is the best yet but 'Limbo' comes very close to it.
Looking forward to the next ones when released on DVD!
