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Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Michael Jeter, Diego Luna, James Russo, Abraham Benrubi, Dean McDermott, Kim Coates (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Wo 1882 die Zäune der Zivilisation den Westen Amerikas noch nicht erreicht haben, treiben sie ihre Rinder über freies Weideland - unterstützt vom sanftmütigen Riesen Mose und dem jungen Mexikaner Button. Es ist ein hartes, aber von der Schönheit der Natur versöhntes, Leben. Bis zu dem Zeitpunkt, als sie das Reich eines Tyrannen streifen Rancher Baxter, der das Örtchen Harmonville fest in seiner Hand hat, hasst die sogenannten "Freegrazer" - wie die vier Cowboys, die vom Land leben, selbst aber keines besitzen. Und wider Willen sehen sich Waite und Spearman in einen gnadenlosen Kampf verstrickt, der über ihre Zukunft und die aller Bewohner von Harmonville entscheidet.... (Universum Film)
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Ein kleiner, bescheidener Western im kleinen Rahmen mit wenigen Figuren und Dingen, die zwischen ihnen liegen. Es wäre nicht schlecht gewesen, wenn der Plot komplizierter gewesen wäre. Dasselbe gilt aber auch für den Grad der Dankbarkeit des Publikums. Kevin Costner hat ein Gefühl für die Psychologie der Figuren und weiß, wie man die Schauspieler*innen leitet. Und es ist mir egal, dass der Himmel im Hintergrund wie eine mit Scheinwerfern beleuchtete Leinwand im Studio aussieht. Wenn das Budget des Films größer gewesen wäre, hätte er sich wahrscheinlich nicht so sehr auf die wichtigen Dinge konzentrieren können.
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The first half is filled with beautiful, almost kitschy imagery (I almost expected a sharp cowboy face to appear and invite me to enjoy a Marlboro) and a free-flowing plot with well-written dialogue and likeable main characters. They aren’t the infallible gunslingers with a colt low at the waist who are so brilliantly parodied in Lemonade Joe, but true cowboys for whom manly honor and honesty are above all else. Duvall and Costner play their roles superbly, and thanks to their performance the viewer easily becomes familiar with their fates and will cheer for them all the more during the final, quite successful shootout. However, I think that the editing scissors could have helped at times, for the sake of more plot build-up, and I also had the impression of a set-up ending at the end. Overall, three and a half *. For the first time in a long time, Kevin Costner at least gave a bit of a flashback to his old days when he charmed the movie world with Dances With Wolves.
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There is nothing more captivating than a classically constructed story of men who, despite their rudeness, fight for direct ideals of courage and honor. I end up never wanting to leave such an environment, and neither does Kevin Costner. Although I can't point out a single scene that was purposeless or unnecessary, the running time is unbearably drawn out. The added passage after the decisive shootout speaks for itself. All the interiors of the spit-filled saloons, and especially the exteriors of dusty towns and endless plains, are right up my alley, but just watch any part of Dances with Wolves and you too will see that Kevin was in a completely different league.
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I always knew that Kevin Costner is good, and here he serves a smart film with characters that have proper depth and where the phrase “instant romance” cannot be used. The way the screenwriter develops the characters is surprising, without pathos or unnecessarily extended scenes. And the final approximately 15-minute shootout is really well-crafted.
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An honest western that illustrates in perhaps a somewhat linear (yet basically almost flawless) way that evil must be confronted and fought to the end, even in the face of what seems a losing battle. Overall, this is a story told very slowly and with a wonderful build all the way through, graced in the end by one of the most impressive shootouts I've ever seen. It's very "Costnerian", but I don't mean that pejoratively in the slightest. [80%]
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