The Long Riders

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Frans B @FransB May 3 Very good. Walter Hill did good here. Well written and brought to screen. Stellar cast all delivers convincingly in character. Epic proportions. Lots of well planned gunfights, horseback chases and fight scenes. Great cinematography and visually stunning. Gritty and raw, fast paced and violent. Real good ol' classic cowboys and crooks movie See more Vincent S @Vin_E_At_The_Movies Feb 25 Walter Hill does it again, making a superior action movie and Western with beautifully shot shootouts. Genius casting of a line of outstanding career actors, some in early roles. This might also be Walter Hill's strongest female characters in a movie of his also. A lot of fun, gritty and it doesn't waste many shots or moments. See more Johannes S @RT64416087 09/24/2024 Great, short, and fast-paced western flick. Tells the interesting story without bloating it up. See more John H @JLHIII 03/31/2024 Very good fairly accurate telling on the James Younger Gang. Good story and acting plus stylized action See more 07/02/2023 Good western with a lot of foul language in it so be careful, James Welch, Henderson, Arkansas, July 1, 2023 See more Federico T @RT44932748 04/30/2023 If you're looking for a masterfully directed western that's perfectly balanced between environmental authenticity and elegiac characters' strenght and charisma, this is the movie for you. Rounded in family bonds' fundamental purposes and inescapable backlashes, vendetta's harsh violence and the depiction of a soon to collapse self-regulated and self-segregated provincial world on the outskirts of the modern american society ambition that the Civil War aftermath was going to digest and offer to a yet fragmented country, Walter Hill forges an intense and peculiar movie that loves to the bone the western aestethics but also places itself in an unusual midwestern setting. Everything in this plot progresses utterly epic still remaining realistic, somewhat stiff and composed, as passages of a ritual, to elevate gestures and significant moments, stages of a timetable that from the legendary deeds and renegade conduct of the James-Younger gang end in the downward spiral of these hopeless men that just won't fit at all with the expectations of their country to be. The family element is crucial to underline dramatically the emotions that are in the game but also to gain that kind of credibility to make the numerous cast gel (built upon groups of real brothers actors). The search of an authentic environment is the key to the entire operation, affecting everything from the locations, the historically accurate soundtrack by Ry Cooder, till the toned down, even darkened, film foil. See more Read all reviews

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