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Open Range (2003)

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79

Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 171
Fresh: 135 | Rotten: 36

A simple tale, well told, Open Range is one of Kevin Costner's better efforts.

66

Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 12

A simple tale, well told, Open Range is one of Kevin Costner's better efforts.

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Kevin Costner stars in and directs the Western Open Range. Robert Duvall stars as Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer who free-grazes cattle. He and Charley Waite (Costner) have been partners for ten years. As the film opens in the 1880s, the pair and their employees -- the beefy, rugged, likable Mose (Abraham Benrubi) and the impetuous Mexican teenager Buttons (Diego Luna) -- are driving cattle across the West. Mose is attacked and thrown in jail during a visit to a town. The local cattle rancher

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Western, Drama, Action & Adventure

Craig Storper

Jan 20, 2004

$58.3M

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All Critics (187) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (135) | Rotten (36) | DVD (38)

A flawed but highly entertaining B Western blown up to John Ford scale.

August 21, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Daily News
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The casting of this film may be its greatest asset: Duvall and Costner have the easy familiarity of longtime partners.

August 21, 2003 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press
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Charley's crusty assessment of events -- 'Nothing that's been happening in this town is much of a surprise' -- is all too knowingly accurate.

August 19, 2003 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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A movie that seeks no higher calling than to entertain us the way Hollywood used to.

August 18, 2003 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
Toronto Star
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Open Range has too much of what its title portends.

August 15, 2003 Full Review Source: USA Today
USA Today
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Has a pace as laconic as its director's screen persona.

August 15, 2003 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
Seattle Times
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Some killing, but most violence is PG-13.

December 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment (1)
Common Sense Media

The thunderous climax -one of the muddiest, bloodiest and most chaotic gunfights of the 2000s -makes it clear that Kevin Costner's plaintive, patient, slightly overlong Western was only sitting for a spell to race toward the finish.

September 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com
Suite101.com

Range is handed a stunning period scope by Costner's directorial eye, while forming an unexpectedly tender core to help endear these character past their grizzled exterior.

December 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Modamag.com
Modamag.com

Something like...It's a Wonderful Life, only rich in slaughter.

June 9, 2008

Costner finds in the Western something grand, familiar and new within a genre that clearly has some life in it yet.

September 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

While equally paying homage to directors Peckinpah, Eastwood, and Kurosawa, what makes Open Range special is that it's a love story, too. And one peopled by endearing characters we're inclined to care about when the bloodletting has finally ended.

September 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Princeton Town Topics
Princeton Town Topics

Open Range est tout simplement un bon vieux western qui fait plaisir à voir.

February 25, 2005

... even though Costner's sense of a satisfying ending is a bit too ordinary and unimaginative, I found Open Range refreshing.

January 15, 2005
Looking Closer

... needs a better story, better characters, better source material; and fewer aphorisms, fewer long glances and sweeping scores, fewer chunks of cheese.

September 20, 2004
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

It's a considerable improvement over his last directing effort, the post-apocalyptic disaster The Postman.

June 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

This one is for the Western fans who have been clamoring for classic tales of guns, revenge and a little hokey romance without an ensemble cast or gimmick to keep it afloat.

May 21, 2004 Full Review Source: Las Vegas CityLife

Does Costner think that none of us have ever seen a Western before?The film does have one hell of a good shootout at the end, But Lord, does he make you wait for it.

March 13, 2004 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment (1)
eFilmCritic.com

El film, hermosamente fotografiado por James Muro, es como un ejemplar perdido de una especie en extinción. También lo es, en cierta manera, su coprotagonista Robert Duvall.

February 19, 2004 Full Review Source: Uruguay Total
Uruguay Total

...a cordial and welcome film with likable heroes, dastardly villains, and a rousing climax. It does nothing innovative, but it doesn't need to.

January 17, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

Intriguing and clever enough to keep us gripped, even though nothing very surprising happens.

January 16, 2004 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | Comment (1)
Shadows on the Wall

Um faroeste habitado por personagens interessantes e que conta com um dos tiroteios mais realistas do gênero.

January 14, 2004
Cinema em Cena

[I]n Open Range, Costner sets out to boost the genre... with a... story that draws from the best traditions of the western without sinking into cliché.

January 2, 2004 Full Review

The latest Kevin Costner vehicle is his best in years... and if you can get past the slow pace of the flick, it's a welcome change from this summer's other offerings.

October 7, 2003 Full Review Source: EDGE Boston
EDGE Boston

Costner's epic, as director, is one to behold, not for its 24th hour sentimental about-face, but for the existential knack it has for the pacific, the stately and the quiet.

September 18, 2003 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

It takes forever to get to where we've been before -- way out West, where the sun set on the western a long, long time ago.

September 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Dallas Observer
Dallas Observer

Audience Reviews for Open Range

You can't beat a good Western and Open Range is a good Western. It has all that a modern Western has over the old westerns but with the heart of a classic western. The performances are strong, the direction is sound, the attention to detail is perfect and it's pretty light on cliches. Best of all though, it has a great script, the relationships are both believable and honest, the supporting characters aren't all drunk gun-slingers either which is nice, it was also nice to see a confrontation in a busy cafe rather than a rough saloon. Costner gets the pace of the story just right, he develops his characters and in turn builds the conclusion of the film with just the right level of intensity and intrigue so that the climax does not disappoint.
April 12, 2013
SirPant

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As a Western character study you couldn't do much better, the give and take between Duvall and Costner, the old man and the kid (10 years on), the glue holding the piece, with Bening doing very well as a strong frontier woman. And Gambon is a surprise as the ruthless cattle baron. Well worth your time.
October 6, 2012
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    1. Charley Waite: Sue, how is this ever going to work if you don't do what I say?
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