Welll as promised we caught this movie this afternoon. I must say that heretofore I have admired each and every Coen Brothers movie as a true classic. Put a guy like Jeff Bridges in as the lead (Rooster Cogburn) and remake the 1969 classic where John Wayne won the Oscar for Best Actor and one would think that this is an epic in the making
Well think again. Bear in mind this is one man's opinion. Have you ever heard the phrase, "this is one movie that shouldn't have been made"........well this is one of them. What a disappointment. Jeff Bridges was terrific and almost certainly will be nominated but this movie just isn't in the same league as Crazy Horse. The story line is quite simple. Young girl's father was killed by a man (Josh Brolin). Young girl hires US Marshall (Bridges) to track him down and just for the heck of it, let's throw in a Texas Ranger (Matt Damon) who is also looking for the man for a crime in Texas. Some 2 hours later when watching the rolling credits all we could say was "huh"
This movie for me had high expectations. Who can forget all of the Coen bros prior films. This was to be no exception...right.
Wrong...for me at least
Sorry Phelonius for the review because you too seemed to have high expectations and to you Jay_S don't bother putting it in your Netflix queue. Catch it instead aboard some long distance flight as a way of filling the hours.
Just my $0.02
Well think again. Bear in mind this is one man's opinion. Have you ever heard the phrase, "this is one movie that shouldn't have been made"........well this is one of them. What a disappointment. Jeff Bridges was terrific and almost certainly will be nominated but this movie just isn't in the same league as Crazy Horse. The story line is quite simple. Young girl's father was killed by a man (Josh Brolin). Young girl hires US Marshall (Bridges) to track him down and just for the heck of it, let's throw in a Texas Ranger (Matt Damon) who is also looking for the man for a crime in Texas. Some 2 hours later when watching the rolling credits all we could say was "huh"
This movie for me had high expectations. Who can forget all of the Coen bros prior films. This was to be no exception...right.
Wrong...for me at least
Sorry Phelonius for the review because you too seemed to have high expectations and to you Jay_S don't bother putting it in your Netflix queue. Catch it instead aboard some long distance flight as a way of filling the hours.
Just my $0.02