A superb, nitty-gritty retelling of the story of the James-Younger gang.
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02/05/08
The Long Riders (1980)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:14
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Westerns
Synopsis: This violent Western follows four sets of brothers--the Youngers, the Jameses, the Millers, and the Fords--who band together for a crime spree across Missouri. Law enforcers, meanwhile, prove inept... [More]
Starring: Stacy Keach, James Keach, David Carradine, Keith Carradine
Director: Walter Hill
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Reviews for The Long Riders
1 - 18 (sorted by comments)
Sacrificing investigations into the mentality behind America's most feared band of outlaws, Hill plumps for an evocation of time and place. He does a magnificent job.
02/05/08
A so-so effort, with the gimmick of brothers playing brothers its only interesting aspect.
12/17/02
Walter Hill's first Western is atmospheric and remarkably authentic by casting real-life thespian brothers as real-life outlaw brothers.
10/21/05
Walter Hill's first outright failure.
02/05/08
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08/14/02
One of the more idiosyncratic James gang westerns but not necessarily one of the better ones.
04/02/08
It is an action film, an engaging one, and covers old ground with a contemporary style which never feels out of place.
02/05/08
No review available.
06/19/05
The Long Riders is well-done film about the legendary Jesse James.
01/29/04
A beautiful, laconic and unsentimental film.
02/09/06
The casting problems aside, this is a fairly solid, but not particularly extraordinary film.
06/27/08
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11/04/04
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07/29/02
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11/15/03
Four sets of brothers portray...four sets of brothers.
04/11/01
No review available.
08/25/04
What's ultimately missing is a definable point of view which would tie together the myriad events on display and fill in the blanks which Hill has imposed on the action by sapping it of emotional or historical meaning.
02/05/08
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