The Long Riders

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Johannes S Great, short, and fast-paced western flick. Tells the interesting story without bloating it up. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/29/25 Full Review John H Very good fairly accurate telling on the James Younger Gang. Good story and acting plus stylized action Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/24 Full Review Stephen C Walter Hills fantastic Western is on a par with Sam Peckinpah and the casting is perfect. The film was probably missed in the rush to pound Heaven's gate . And United Artists were pretty much dead in the water meaning other films like this Cutters Way and The Dogs of War escaped rather than being released Apart from that the film delivers and the final raid on the bank is up there with anything Peckinpah shot Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Good western with a lot of foul language in it so be careful, James Welch, Henderson, Arkansas, July 1, 2023 Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 07/02/23 Full Review Federico T 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. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/05/23 Full Review Steve D Far too simplistic to work. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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