Appaloosa takes the traditional notion of a lone lawman fighting injustice and turns it successfully on its head.
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10/10/08
Appaloosa (2008)
75 %
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Reviews Counted: 124
Fresh: 93
Rotten:31
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Consensus: A traditional genre western, Appaloosa sets itself apart with smart psychology, an intriguing love triangle, and good chemistry between the leads.
Theatrical Release: Sep 19, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $5,605,167
Synopsis: Actor Ed Harris takes only his second stab at directing, following the Oscar-winning feature POLLOCK (2000) with this spirited western. Harris draws on a strong cast, many of whom have acted with him in previous films, to tell the story of... [More]
Starring: Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons
Director: Ed Harris
Reviews for Appaloosa
Sometimes Appaloosa seems bent on exploiting the standard cliches of the western genre ...while at others it seems striving to be a modernist update full of ambiguity ...
10/10/08
For those of you who yearn for Westerns like "3:10 to Yuma" and "Tombstone," here's another one you should reach for.
10/10/08
The chemistry of Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen makes 'Appaloosa' a huge film in the way it gets under your skin and into your heart.
10/09/08
We just want the movie to ride off in the sunset to rest among all the other disappointing westerns in Boot Hill.
10/08/08
If it feels a bit like an old Howard Hawks western (no slacker with the subtext himself) -- that's not a bad thing.
10/07/08
Plays on conventions so smoothly that we're never distracted from the ride.
10/07/08
...so old-fashioned it even carries a troubling dose of old-fashioned sexism.
10/07/08
Zellweger's Allison zaps Virgil of his almost superhuman qualities and the film eventually becomes ordinary when the love of a woman interferes with the law.
10/07/08
It's a rousing, efficient western that is about the friendship of two men, just as much as it is about getting the bad guys.
10/07/08
Clearly not worried about modern action conventions, Harris' movie is a traditional Western in every sense of the word, and it seems weird to call it 'new' at all.
10/06/08
Harris' easy byplay with Mortensen, his economical dialogue and his stately camerawork of the New Mexico landscape combine for a smart, dynamic Western.
10/06/08
Ed Harris' labor of love is a welcome return to the classic westerns of yore.
10/05/08
Appaloosa is a no muss, no fuss western, the kind we once took for granted.
10/05/08
Appaloosa is firmly grounded in genre orthodoxy even as it teases at the edges of nonconformity. The results are decidedly mixed.
10/03/08
Dialogue, much of it lifted straight from Parker's novel, proves mostly engaging.
10/03/08
Top Critic Harris displays a quiet, unshowy confidence and a genuine fondness for the genre, capturing the horses and guns and saloon glasses in a soft, almost-sundown light.
10/03/08
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