Like a heavy Southern drawl that lazily meanders through conversation, Outlaws And Angels drags its scenes far longer than contextually necessary. Imagine a Southerner leaking “Hooowwwwdddyyy folkssssss!” like a deflating balloon instead of clear, concise dictation (“Howdy!” and done). Characters just glare at the screen as director Jt Mollner has a field-day with zoom ins and outs that turn his dried-out, rawhide script into a crackly piece of fragile leather. Overindulgence mars this grim, rough-and-tumble Western splatterfest, which is comparable to a more interesting (but still tiresome) take take on Jane Got A Gun (with a darker, strangely jovial mean streak). Death certainly was a byproduct of the Old West, but could people really be so terse about it all?
Mollner’s tale of frontier justice follows three robbers who interrupt a family’s dinner and demand safe haven for the night. Led by a ruthless drifter named Henry (Chad Michael Murray...
Mollner’s tale of frontier justice follows three robbers who interrupt a family’s dinner and demand safe haven for the night. Led by a ruthless drifter named Henry (Chad Michael Murray...
- 7/13/2016
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
From Belle Starr to Calamity Jane, women rarely wield a gun with gusto in the wild west. Will Hollywood ever do justice to female sharp-shooters?
Jane Got a Gun is set somewhere in New Mexico Territory in 1871. Natalie Portman’s grievously wounded husband makes it back to their homestead and warns her there’s a posse of villains on his heels. The posse takes ages to get there, though, so she has time to park her small daughter with a neighbour, then go and ask her resentful ex-boyfriend (Joel Edgerton) for help, and take shooting lessons in preparation for the showdown. Edgerton has never forgiven her for having ditched him while he was in the army, but since he lives about 10 minutes away, it’s a wonder that it’s only now, after seven years, that she lets him know what really went down while he was away. And it...
Jane Got a Gun is set somewhere in New Mexico Territory in 1871. Natalie Portman’s grievously wounded husband makes it back to their homestead and warns her there’s a posse of villains on his heels. The posse takes ages to get there, though, so she has time to park her small daughter with a neighbour, then go and ask her resentful ex-boyfriend (Joel Edgerton) for help, and take shooting lessons in preparation for the showdown. Edgerton has never forgiven her for having ditched him while he was in the army, but since he lives about 10 minutes away, it’s a wonder that it’s only now, after seven years, that she lets him know what really went down while he was away. And it...
- 4/21/2016
- by Anne Billson
- The Guardian - Film News
From Belle Starr to Calamity Jane, women rarely wield a gun with gusto in the wild west. Will Hollywood ever do justice to female sharp-shooters?
Jane Got a Gun is set somewhere in New Mexico Territory in 1871. Natalie Portman’s grievously wounded husband makes it back to their homestead and warns her there’s a posse of villains on his heels. The posse takes ages to get there, though, so she has time to park her small daughter with a neighbour, then go and ask her resentful ex-boyfriend (Joel Edgerton) for help, and take shooting lessons in preparation for the showdown. Edgerton has never forgiven her for having ditched him while he was in the army, but since he lives about 10 minutes away, it’s a wonder that it’s only now, after seven years, that she lets him know what really went down while he was away. And it...
Jane Got a Gun is set somewhere in New Mexico Territory in 1871. Natalie Portman’s grievously wounded husband makes it back to their homestead and warns her there’s a posse of villains on his heels. The posse takes ages to get there, though, so she has time to park her small daughter with a neighbour, then go and ask her resentful ex-boyfriend (Joel Edgerton) for help, and take shooting lessons in preparation for the showdown. Edgerton has never forgiven her for having ditched him while he was in the army, but since he lives about 10 minutes away, it’s a wonder that it’s only now, after seven years, that she lets him know what really went down while he was away. And it...
- 4/21/2016
- by Anne Billson
- The Guardian - Film News
Utah, 1856. A young boy sees his family murdered by a gang of outlaws. He grows up to become “Lucky Luke” (Jean Dujardin), a suave and cheeky gunslinger who always seems to be able to work his way out of a tight spot. He is recruited by the Us President to bring peace to Daisy Town, which is set to be the place where the continent-spanning railroad will finally join up. In so doing, he runs into Jesse James, Calamity Jane and Billy the Kid. Oh, and everyone is French.
*****
More so than most films, your enjoyment or otherwise of this will rest upon your tolerance for silliness. Stylistically unique but distractingly quirky, Lucky Luke is undoubtedly its own creature, but that may not be enough to win over audiences. It goes without saying that this is another cynical attempt to cash in on Dujardin’s post-Artist acclaim. Lucky Luke dates...
*****
More so than most films, your enjoyment or otherwise of this will rest upon your tolerance for silliness. Stylistically unique but distractingly quirky, Lucky Luke is undoubtedly its own creature, but that may not be enough to win over audiences. It goes without saying that this is another cynical attempt to cash in on Dujardin’s post-Artist acclaim. Lucky Luke dates...
- 9/5/2012
- by Dave Roper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Jean Dujardin's beaming face and effortless French elegance lent a whole new magic to this year's Oscars and helped ensure The Artist's success everywhere it went.
If it feels like he turned up overnight to scoop up all the acting awards on offer earlier this year - including the coveted Best Actor Award - he's actually been around for a lot longer.
Here's a little something he made earlier - a western, Lucky Luke, in which he plays, quote, "Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town." This is an iconic French cowboy - yes, they do exist. Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane both make honourable appearances.
Sound all right? To celebrate this 2009 film being released on DVD - pushed through, no doubt, by Monsieur Dujardin's more recent global triumph - we've found an interview with Jean Dujardin, talking about the...
If it feels like he turned up overnight to scoop up all the acting awards on offer earlier this year - including the coveted Best Actor Award - he's actually been around for a lot longer.
Here's a little something he made earlier - a western, Lucky Luke, in which he plays, quote, "Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town." This is an iconic French cowboy - yes, they do exist. Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane both make honourable appearances.
Sound all right? To celebrate this 2009 film being released on DVD - pushed through, no doubt, by Monsieur Dujardin's more recent global triumph - we've found an interview with Jean Dujardin, talking about the...
- 5/28/2012
- by The Huffington Post UK
- Huffington Post
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