Jane Got a Gun
2016, Western/Action, 1h 38m
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Jane Got a Gun flounders between campy Western and hard-hitting revisionist take on the genre, leaving Natalie Portman's committed performance stranded in the dust. Read critic reviews
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Jane Hammond
Dan Frost
Bill Hammond
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John Bishop
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What is here is enjoyable if taken on its own terms, much of Jane Got a Gun playing out with a 1940s or '50s Hollywood lan I found more than satisfying.
August 15, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
Is it possible that Natalie Portman can't act?
April 24, 2016 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review… -
There's hardly a scene you watch without wondering, and doubting, if Ramsay would have done it quite this way.
April 24, 2016 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review… -
It's all perfectly passable, but rather perfunctory ...
April 24, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
This was a troubled production. Scottish director Lynne Ramsay quit days before shooting began and there were late changes made to the cast. In certain respects, the replacement director Gavin O'Connor has done an impressive job.
April 22, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
A very moderate adventure.
April 21, 2016 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Jane Got a Gun
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Jan 11, 2017Jane Got a Gun is so wholly dull that it squanders solid performances from Natalie Portman and Joel Edgerton. The film has a whisper thin plot that somehow manages to get convoluted, using frequent flashbacks and quiet explanations to fill the audience in on large amounts of backstory and while the film at least attempts to be a feminist take on the western genre, it ends up undoing this entire approach by the film's not too exciting final showdown. Jane Got a Gun is the western equivalent of fast food. Quick, dirty and not quite satisfying. Rating: 50Bradley J Super Reviewer
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Oct 27, 2016http://cinephilecrocodile.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/jane-got-gun-dir-gavin-oconnor-2016.htmlAnthony L Super Reviewer
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Sep 04, 2016The Western genre is one that has struggled to find its own two feet to stand on in recent years. Jane Got a Gun certainly does not buck that trend. Also I'm pretty sure not a single one of these Wild West folks was American.Gimly M Super Reviewer
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May 22, 2016A modern western with a strong female lead, yet old-fashioned sensibilities and story, Jane Got A Gun is hardly an atypical Western. That is not to say that it is not effective, it certainly is, and there's a slow-build and methodical unraveling of the story that produces a very atmospheric and brooding tone. The ending was a bit too neatly done, yet the film has messy relationship dynamics and a sort of pragmatism that many Westerns are missing. Portman's character proves to be particularly compelling, and her characterization is certainly the strongest of the film. In the end, it really doesn't break new ground, yet tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way. 3.5/5 StarsJeffrey M Super Reviewer
Jane Got a Gun Quotes
Jane Hammond: | Where...is...my...child? |
Jane Hammond: | I have a gun. |
Jane Hammond: | I will kill you. |
Jane Hammond: | I've been runnin' my whole life. I gotta put my face to it. |
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