Just watched "Appaloosa" on dvd, Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellwhatever, Jeremy Irons.
Seems good on paper anyway.....
I dont know, it just....lacked something.
A lot of something, at that.
For a start, the disastrous casting of Bridget Jones in period costume with a bad accent as the femme fatale (as such) was just awful-I have no idea if she can act, but this movie was weak all around in many areas.
Ed Hariss's character "Virgil Cole" could just have easily been played by a vase of some sort, such was the wooden intensity and sparseness of dialogue........Viggo Mortensens sidekick Everitt ( who ostensibly narrates the story, not clearly enough it seems) stole the show, was a more interesting character, AND had, seemingly a better relationship with his hooker girlfriend than the main character did with his.
So, who gives a crap about the main character?
Nobody, is the correct answer, and that's whats wrong with this film, ultimately.
I've seen more character on a set of lego men, sure there were some bits of action, but amazingly, the 8-guage shotgun carried by the sidekck in every scene, is only used the once in the movie, to less than realistic effect.
By the end of the movie, it had taken on it's own personality, or so it seemed, against the rest of the cast.
Harsh I know, but if you like ride 'em down shoot 'em up westerns, where something happens occassionally, this isnt the movie for you......it's "character driven" apparently.
Seems good on paper anyway.....
I dont know, it just....lacked something.
A lot of something, at that.
For a start, the disastrous casting of Bridget Jones in period costume with a bad accent as the femme fatale (as such) was just awful-I have no idea if she can act, but this movie was weak all around in many areas.
Ed Hariss's character "Virgil Cole" could just have easily been played by a vase of some sort, such was the wooden intensity and sparseness of dialogue........Viggo Mortensens sidekick Everitt ( who ostensibly narrates the story, not clearly enough it seems) stole the show, was a more interesting character, AND had, seemingly a better relationship with his hooker girlfriend than the main character did with his.
So, who gives a crap about the main character?
Nobody, is the correct answer, and that's whats wrong with this film, ultimately.
I've seen more character on a set of lego men, sure there were some bits of action, but amazingly, the 8-guage shotgun carried by the sidekck in every scene, is only used the once in the movie, to less than realistic effect.
By the end of the movie, it had taken on it's own personality, or so it seemed, against the rest of the cast.
Harsh I know, but if you like ride 'em down shoot 'em up westerns, where something happens occassionally, this isnt the movie for you......it's "character driven" apparently.
