Open Range (2003)
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.
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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Robert Duvall
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Kevin Costner
Charley Waite -
Annette Bening
Sue Barlow -
Michael Gambon
Denton Baxter -
Michael Jeter
Percy -
Diego Luna
Button -
James Russo
Sheriff Poole -
Abraham Benrubi
Mose Harrison -
Dean McDermott
Doc Barlow -
Kim Coates
Butler
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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.
Top CriticThe casting of this film may be its greatest asset: Duvall and Costner have the easy familiarity of longtime partners.
Charley's crusty assessment of events -- 'Nothing that's been happening in this town is much of a surprise' -- is all too knowingly accurate.
A movie that seeks no higher calling than to entertain us the way Hollywood used to.
Open Range has too much of what its title portends.
Has a pace as laconic as its director's screen persona.
Some killing, but most violence is PG-13.
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.
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.
Something like...It's a Wonderful Life, only rich in slaughter.
Costner finds in the Western something grand, familiar and new within a genre that clearly has some life in it yet.
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.
Open Range est tout simplement un bon vieux western qui fait plaisir à voir.
... even though Costner's sense of a satisfying ending is a bit too ordinary and unimaginative, I found Open Range refreshing.
... needs a better story, better characters, better source material; and fewer aphorisms, fewer long glances and sweeping scores, fewer chunks of cheese.
It's a considerable improvement over his last directing effort, the post-apocalyptic disaster The Postman.
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.
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.
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.
...a cordial and welcome film with likable heroes, dastardly villains, and a rousing climax. It does nothing innovative, but it doesn't need to.
Intriguing and clever enough to keep us gripped, even though nothing very surprising happens.
Um faroeste habitado por personagens interessantes e que conta com um dos tiroteios mais realistas do gênero.
[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.
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.
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.
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.
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