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American Outlaws (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 99
Fresh: 13
Rotten:86
Average Rating: 3.6/10
Consensus: With corny dialogue, revisionist history, anachronistic music, and a generically attractive cast, American Outlaws is a sanitized, teenybopper version of Jesse James.
Theatrical Release: Aug 17, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $11,888,985
Synopsis: Director Les Mayfield (BLUE STREAK) attempts to revamp the Western genre with yet another telling of the Jesse James story. This time around, James (Colin Farrell), older brother Frank (Gabriel Macht), and companion Cole Younger (Scott... [More]
Starring: Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali Larter, Gabriel Macht
Director: Les Mayfield
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06/24/06
Top Critic Never mind that it's already been done before and better; it's never been done this pretty.
12/18/03
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12/15/03
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10/15/02
At its best, American Outlaws is absurd; at its worst, it’s tedious and laughable.
02/26/02
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01/06/02
Top Critic Marks the second time that O'Quinn has been in Young Guns and Dalton in The Rocketeer, leading me to conclude that I've wasted too much of my life watching terrible movies.
12/30/01
The kind of film that will have you throwing your popcorn at the screen in disgust.
12/17/01
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12/13/01
A film that can best be described as the "dumb version" of Young Guns 2, American Outlaws ranks among the year's most entertainingly insipid movies.
12/09/01
Instead of treating it as a serious work of art, one should look at AMERICAN OUTLAWS as an old-fashioned B Western and one won't be disappointed.
12/04/01
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June 05, 2001:
Another example of the 'old story, young cast' formula that has been more and more common in recent years. 
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June 05, 2001:
Working in the studio's favor is the casting of Farrell -- who went from zero to must have hot young thing in 2.7 seconds after starring in last year's Vietnam era drama Tigerland.
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June 05, 2001:
Red-hot Irishman Farrell stars as the young Jesse James, who leads his pretty-boy posse against a scheming railroad baron.
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