It's a Western. More nuanced than those of yore, sure, but equally surely not revisionistic in any substantial way - it's a Western. Neat landscapes, middling in the viscerality stakes, good performances by Crowe, Bale and the others, and a gee-whiz finale which is ridiculous but sorta fitting. Not anything remarkable, but what it is, it is to the hilt and it was plenty diverting.
(w/ Swee Leng, late show a couple of Fridays ago...sadly, the Nova seems to be phasing them out, but make hay while the sun shines (or the moon glows, as the case may be, I suppose), &c)
