This is seriously Brad Pitt's best performance of his career. Such an amazing movie!
Paranoia has never been put to celluloid so beautifully. Amazing film - amazing soundtrack
I saw about half of this movie, than i turned it off because it was boring as hell. Why some people call this an amazing work of art is beyond me.
Watched about half way through and couldn't bare to finish it. Incredibly boring.
This movie felt like, at least, 40 minutes too long. Up until 1h40 something, I struggled to keep focused and it was like the narrator was the only thing getting me by. Only at that point, I felt honestly engaged with the characters and the story.
Although there's some pretty good acting and it's beautifully shot, it's probably not a movie I will be willing to sit through again for almost 3 hours. At least not anytime soon.
A fantastic telling of a remarkable story. Both cast and script are excellent. Affleck really comes into his own in this film
So Jesse James dies in this movie. Oh, sorry, I guess that's a spoiler alert. My bad. Anyway, this is seriously a great historically set drama. No, don't go into this thinking it's an action movie or something. This is a drama that is focused on a more realistic sense of how nuts Jesse James got late in his life.
My highest love of this film is the cinematography. These shots are just straight up beautiful throughout. They also do a look that's like you have an old fashioned camera lens when they have sequences described by the narrator. It's like you're being taught certain things, and then experiencing the reality just a bit later. This makes me ok with the length of the movie, but I can see some people thinking the movie is too long. Honestly, I'd be fine with it being cut down a bit, but it doesn't really bother me much. Acting is great by everyone too, Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck especially. I'd recommend checking this out for sure.
For someone who is not the least bit aware of recent US history and about Jesse James, this movie still leaves a strong impression. It is patient, slow burn and is exquisitely shot in slow deliberate frames.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a mouthful title. It tells a story of an American outlaw, Jesse Woodson James. This guy was responsible for many train and bank robberies and looking at his wiki page, the public had a soft spot for him, as they considered him a real-life embodiment of Robin Hood. After most of Jesse's gang was depleted, he only relied on the Ford brothers, who later conspired and killed Jesse James. This is not a spoiler and being an adaptation, it is already a well-known fact.
The movie stands out for his slow and deliberate pacing as if depicting a quiet laid back life of US small towns back in the day. From the train robberies to old creaky houses, the camera moves purposefully through each frame. The long shots of the sun through the window, the open farmlands, the snow-covered landscapes are hauntingly beautiful.
Apart from the beautiful frames, the slow pace works like a slow psychological burn, it feels like the fuse that inches towards the ending which is not a surprise. We know towards the end, that the uncomfortable silences, the paranoia of mistrust surrounds the leads like a thick impenetrable fog. I could feel the increasing pressure it puts on till the last second. Many times, the movies I have seen fail to rightly capture the intense stress before an important moment, this movie captures it quite well.
Bradd Pitt is comfortably relaxed on screen as always. His is rattled only a few times, which feels out of character for him at times, but as a portrayal of Jesse James, he is wonderful. Casey Affleck is splendid in his depiction of unsure but cocky Robert Ford. The cowardice with which he is attributed to shows in his unstable mannerisms. He is torn between emotions. His journey from buoyant wannabe member to a government operative felt convincing.
For someone not from the United States, the accent was hard to understand at times, but subtitles helped.
It was a recommendation under a well-shot film, and it delivers on those grounds. Recommended.
Fantastic Western. Dour and pensive. It's a very human story so it's hard to completely hate Afflecks character. Same as it's hard to to completely sympathise with Pitt. That's what I love about it, just how flawed these people are.
Watched this last night, excellent movie with an excellent performance from both Casey Affleck and Brad Pitt. One of my favourite modern westerns.
poor Robert and poor Jesse ,,
Jesse deserved to die really but not in his own house in front of his wife and kids
the movie was great but a little longer than it should be and if they didn't make an old man tell the story it would have been a lot better
Beautifully filmed, slow but impactful. The acting was excellent - Brad Pitt can be so scary, and Casey Affleck is so good at being creepy and an unsettling presence. Also really loved the score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
Hardly any action for a western. Lame
Surprisingly better than I expected. Not sure about the historical value since so many of these historical fiction movies take a lot of liberties. But it was pretty good. Pretty sure the house was actually in Hamilton Missouri not St Joseph. Hamilton is also where JCPenney's began. Now a non-existent town absorbed into one of the largest closer towns.
What!? A movie starring Brad Pitt with Roger Deakins as cinematographer? And it has Sam Rockwell!? With music by NICK CAVE!? This is one of those glorious movies where you just have to sit back and let the masters work their magic.
To be sure, at 2 1/2 hours this film doesn't fly by, but some things are meant to be savored and not consumed.
While this movie did seem a bit long, the suspense was engaging. I felt like there was a lot of character development and you were able to get into the head of Jesse James and Robert Ford. The cinematography was excellent.
Great performances by Pitt & Affleck. Brilliant cinematography. A fantastic return to the moody, epic western. And in a year that was top heavy with other great films (There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, The Diving Bell & the Butterfly, Zodiac, Into the Wild), this movie belongs right up there with them.
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This film is a masterpiece. No more words.