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Seraphim Falls (2007)

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Reviews Counted:19

Fresh:8

Rotten:11

Average Rating:5.3/10

Consensus: A brutal, slow-moving drama that unfolds among some great-looking scenery.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for violence and brief language.

Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Genre: Thriller, War, Theatrical Release, Violence, Revenge, Railroads

Theatrical Release:Jan 26, 2007 Limited

Box Office: $287,772

Synopsis: PIERCE BROSNAN and LIAM NEESON star in Seraphim Falls – An epic action thriller set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Directed by David Von Ancken (The Shield, CSI) Seraphim Falls... PIERCE BROSNAN and LIAM NEESON star in Seraphim Falls – An epic action thriller set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Directed by David Von Ancken (The Shield, CSI) Seraphim Falls is a visceral study of revenge and a bloody account of the aftermath of war. Combining the raw brutality of FIRST BLOOD with the mesmerizing savage beauty of COLD MOUNTAIN, this is a film that will leave audiences gasping, and on the edge of their seats. It's been five years since the end of the American Civil War. Somewhere deep within the snowy mountains of the American West a lone figure - Gideon (PIERCE BROSNAN) sits in front of a fire, lost in thought. Abruptly, he is pulled out of his reverie by the echo of a Henry rifle and a bullet puffing into the snow inches from his head. With no time to react another shot rings out. It connects with Gideon's shoulder and whips him to the ground. Instantly Gideon calculates his one chance of survival. To leave everything he owns and run for the cover of the nearby fir trees – his blood leaving a crimson trail in the snow… So begins the thrilling first act of SERAPHIM FALLS, and the final stage of Colonel Morsman Carver's (LIAM NEESON) terrible revenge - to hunt down and kill Gideon, no matter what it takes. There will be many men dead before these two meet face to face, and only then will Carver fully comprehend the full cost of his undertaking. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless pursuit will take them both far from the comforts and codes of civilization and into the unforgiving wilderness. The emotional conclusion to this odyssey comes after a bloody climax in which both men are forced to confront their past and travel deep within the recesses of their souls. SERAPHIM FALLS - a taut action film, an epic chase and primal battle set in the mythic landscape of the West. [More]

Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Anjelica Huston, Angie Harmon

Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Anjelica Huston, Angie Harmon, Xander Berkeley, Ed Lauter, Tom Noonan, John Robinson, Robert Baker

Director: David Von Ancken

Director: David Von Ancken
Screenwriter: Abby Everett Jacques
Producer: Bruce Davey, David Flynn
Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams
Studio: IDP Distribution

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A Western short on dialogue and long on pomposity, is little more than an extended chase scene down a snow-filled mountaintop to a desert floor.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
02/09/07
Ruthe Stein
Ruthe Stein
San Francisco Chronicle
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The technical revels are arresting, but Seraphim Falls is slow of motive and thin of plot -- a western that dies with its boots on.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
02/07/07
Rex Reed
Rex Reed
New York Observer
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Though the chase threatens to go on too long, the suspense remains high because we don’t know which man is the real villain, or if there’s a villain at all.

Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
02/05/07
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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It is not a terrible movie -- its beginning holds a certain promise -- just, finally, an unengaging one.

Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | comment Comment
01/31/07
Richard Schickel
Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine
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The director, David Von Ancken, and his cinematographer, John Toll, do magical things with the ever-shifting light, and there are splendidly weird turns from Anjelica Huston as a snake-oil salesperson and Tom Noonan as a wagon-train Evangelist.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
01/30/07
David Edelstein
David Edelstein
New York Magazine
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Seraphim Falls is a psychological drama with an intriguing ambiguity that challenges the viewer's loyalties and preconceived notions.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
01/26/07
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today
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Von Ancken may have begun this by wanting to remember films like High Plains Drifter. But all he ends up doing is reminding us how much better they were.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
01/26/07
Stephen Whitty
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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... moseys along very slowly ...

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
01/26/07
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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... an entertaining Western with some earnest ideas about forgiveness, redemption and the loss of innocents.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
01/26/07
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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... it moves along with minimalist efficiency before running out of gas during an overlong allegorical final section.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
01/26/07
Kevin Crust
Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times
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... technically solid but dramatically unremarkable ...

Full Review Source: Associated Press | comment Comment
01/26/07
Christy Lemire
Christy Lemire
Associated Press
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Seraphim Falls is a movie some will relish and others will find a bit anachronistic.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
01/26/07
Michael Wilmington
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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... impressive for its stubborn classicism.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
01/26/07
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
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... Seraphim Falls keeps you in suspense with what will happen next: a good, old-fashioned storytelling virtue.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
01/26/07
Richard Nilsen
Richard Nilsen
Arizona Republic
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A handsome, old-fashioned western of few words and heavy meanings that unfolds with the sanctimonious grandeur of a biblical allegory.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
01/26/07
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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You can, if you so choose, read the film as a lesson in the futility of violent conflict as a means toward a peaceful end. Or you can let it just wash over you, fast and pounding, like a waterfall.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
01/25/07
Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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[Neeson] and Brosnan are supremely well-matched foils, though I do wish that the filmmaker, David Von Ancken, had lent his sparsely mythic tale just a twinge of something...new.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
01/25/07
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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Aside from spasms of brutal violence, however, there's nothing rousing or new here.

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09/19/06
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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It's all very impressive looking, but this Civil War-era Western moves at a painstaking trickle.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
09/15/06
Michael Rechtshaffen
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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