This is a great two-hour motion picture. Unfortunately, it runs 20 minutes longer than that.
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08/15/03
Open Range (2003)
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Reviews Counted:168
Fresh:132
Rotten:36
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: A simple tale, well told, Open Range is one of Kevin Costner's better efforts.
Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $58,260,046
Synopsis: Academy-Award® winning director Kevin Costner ("Dances with Wolves") helms this traditional Western tale of a way of life that is quickly disappearing. Boss Spearman (ROBERT DUVALL), Charley... [More]
Starring: Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon
Director: Kevin Costner
Reviews for Open Range
101 - 120 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
The best duster since Clint Eastwood's 1992 triumph Unforgiven.
08/15/03
Filled with clichés.
08/15/03
Despite some lapses in taste at the end, Open Range is competently directed, though rarely inspired. No one is going to mistake Kevin Costner for John Ford.
08/15/03
A great and beautiful Western in the classic vein.
08/15/03
If the climax of Open Range is disappointing, the ending is almost intolerable, as the plot descends into a twinkling love story, and Costner reverts to filmmaking aimed at 12-year-olds.
08/15/03
A pretty decent little movie.
08/15/03
The first two hours of Open Range are a great pleasure, and the final minutes come as a vague indigestion.
08/15/03
Open Range is not in the same league with Dances, but this compelling drama stands on its own as one of the best films of the summer.
08/15/03
With actors less sure than Duvall and Bening alongside him, Costner's old-fashioned Western would collapse. With them in the saddles, it rides into the sunset in high style.
08/15/03
One of 2003's best films.
08/15/03
A patient, suspenseful exercise in genre craftsmanship.
08/15/03
Costner saves his best work for the finale, an electrifying gun battle that steers clear of Western clichés to re-create the chaos and brutality of a place thick with flying bullets.
08/15/03
A good film struggling to free itself from directorial excess. . . . Open Range strives for the heft of [director Kevin] Costner’s signature work, Dances With Wolves,” but this tale is too simple for the royal treatment.
08/15/03
...a movie my 79-year-old grandfather will love. And I can't think of a better compliment.
08/15/03
The final shootout belongs in the Western pantheon with the poetic, anti-heroic shootouts in Anthony Mann's The Far Country and Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller.
08/15/03
Western's sincerity and Robert Duvall's warm, fascinating lead performance can't make up for a rough ride with an uneven tone.
08/15/03
This is by far the best film Costner has made in the past six years. As always, his direction misses no details, instilling considerably more sensitivity in the movie than you might expect to find in a Western.
08/15/03
(Costner) musters quiet moments of humbling tenderness and knee-buckling violence, and also knows when one should outweigh the other.
08/15/03
As comfortable as a well-worn saddle, Open Range is something you might have caught one Sunday afternoon on Turner Classic Movies.
08/15/03
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