Kansas

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Jesse James T I Think the Movie was Actually Pretty Good, Though My Opinion Might Be a Little Biased Considering I Live in The Town They Filmed the Movie In. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/25/23 Full Review Kyle J This movie might entertain middle school kids. Maybe. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Kansas is an uneven movie that mixes melodrama of two drifters, with a suspense thriller setting. To see a work of art relatable to this film is "At Close Range", with Sean Penn and Christopher Walken; that film was able to convey the fragile temperaments of its characters through the guise of a suspense genre. One of the elements that causes this film to fall under the weight of its ambition is its indifferent examination of McCarthy's character: the film seems to want to take an objective viewpoint on McCathry's "heroism" versus Dillon's nihilistic persona, and how they seem to be inextricably linked. Yet I didn't see much to do about McCarthy's motivation, and what causes him to be a drifter. Dillon seems to embody more of a drifter attitude without need of a backstory. The music is also glaringly frustrating, as it makes us feel like we're watching an episode of "Little House on the Prairie" due to McCarthy's new found "faith" in hard labor on the frontier land. But this goes back to the problem of my foresaid problem with McCarthy's motivation: he was never a bad guy to begin with, so why the implicated story arc through the music and montage sequences of him doing an honest day's work? I think this movie would've best been served, story-wise, if both of the main characters actually had a history, even a longtime friendship, of being rascals from the beginning, and then one of them breaking off into discovering midwestern "values"; either that, or just make it a damn thriller without the sentimentality! Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a pretty good movie, although I find it kind of funny that it's okay when McCarthy and Dillon commit burglary together, but when Dillon commits a robbery; all of a sudden McCarthy is an angel and Dillon is the bad guy. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member Yuck. That music was the worst. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member (First and only viewing - 4/27/2010) Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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