American Outlaws (2001)
Average Rating: 3.6/10
Reviews Counted: 102
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 88
With corny dialogue, revisionist history, anachronistic music, and a generically attractive cast, American Outlaws is a sanitized, teenybopper version of Jesse James.
Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 29
With corny dialogue, revisionist history, anachronistic music, and a generically attractive cast, American Outlaws is a sanitized, teenybopper version of Jesse James.
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This loosely fact-based oater attempts to mimic the youthful heartthrobs in Western garb formula of Young Guns (1988), as well as the cheeky humor and some plot elements of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Colin Farrell stars as Jesse James, who returns home from the Civil War to his small hometown to find that a crooked railroad baron (Harris Yulin) has been illegally forcing the residents from the homesteads to make way for a new rail line. Enraged, James leads a band of outlaws
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Colin Farrell
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Scott Caan
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Ali Larter
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Gabriel Macht
Frank James -
Gregory Smith
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Harris Yulin
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Will McCormack
Bob Younger -
Kathy Bates
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Timothy Dalton
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Ronny Cox
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Terry O'Quinn
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Nathaniel Arcand
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Ed Geldart
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Muse Watson
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All Critics (111) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (89) | DVD (15)
A big yawn that only reminds us why movie westerns are six feet under and not likely to make a comeback.
The bizarre result of another in a long line of westerns tailored for rising actors, who no one really takes seriously in such projects.
The movie's presumption of ignorance on the audience's part is monumental.
The blandification of the puppy-stud Western reaches its nadir.
Top CriticPicture 1860s Missouri as Ft. Lauderdale during Spring Break and you've got the idea.
There's no escaping the hackneyed plot or Mayfield's conventional hand.
Silly western revisits Jesse James.
At no time does the movie ever catch fire, come to life, or show a spark of imagination.
Never mind that it's already been done before and better; it's never been done this pretty.
...instantly forgettable.
For the most part it's First Knight Way Out West all the way.
Setting new standards in historical inaccuracy.
At its best, American Outlaws is absurd; at its worst, it's tedious and laughable.
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