Costner might not be able to act, but boy can he direct.
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08/14/03
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
141 - 160 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Costner delivers black-and-white simplifications -- the unequivocally right, justified in doing whatever they want against the demonized wrong. It's a film for the George W. Bush era.
08/14/03
Open Range does not reach the heights of such classic Westerns as Red River or Unforgiven. It strives to be classy, which is one of its faults.
08/14/03
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Top CriticA gorgeously atmospheric, perfectly cast, beautifully crafted oater of the old school, made with heaps of integrity, no gimmicks and few concessions to the box office.
08/14/03
A sincere, big-hearted attempt to revive the classic westerns of John Ford and Howard Hawks, Open Range is more good than bad.
08/14/03
A ponderous drag.
08/14/03
Top CriticKevin Knows Westerns.
08/14/03
Open Range resembles a graduation ceremonies address. It's long, a tad pompous and sprinkled with occasional kernels of truth.
08/14/03
A striking, if flawed, achievement.
08/14/03
A harmless but singularly unremarkable oater that takes a long time to reach the Big Shootout.
08/14/03
Somewhere in there is a pretty good western. If only we could see more of it amid the ballast.
08/14/03
From its gorgeous photography...to its brutal, wide-ranging, Peckinpah-worthy climactic shootout, this is some of Costner's best work.
08/14/03
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08/14/03
Top CriticThe actors are so good that you could almost live with the man's- gotta -do-what -a-man's -gotta-do excesses of Craig Storper's script.
08/14/03
Costner is not the most exuberant actor, but, for the most part, that's an asset here.
08/14/03
A Western without irony or innovation, without any of the overt efforts toward 'revisionism' we've come to expect even from Eastwood.
08/14/03
It may be time for some cowboy heroes again.
08/14/03
Costner shows an exacting instinct for how to build a shoot-'em-up from the ground up.
08/14/03
After a long string of bombs, Costner delivers a real winner that will remind people why he won an Oscar for Dances with Wolves.
08/14/03
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