The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Assassination of Jesse James has to be one of the best westerns of the past 10 years and it claims this title by forsaking many of the traditional western staples. The film is low on gun fights, beautiful women and daring escapes...what it has a lot of is haunting images, brilliant acting and an expansive script.

Do not be scared off by tales of over length or dull plot. Those are comments by people to shallow to understand the true depth of the film and what it was trying to accomplish. Yes it is expansive and yes it could be a little shorter, but oh how i did enjoy every minuet of it and in the end it was all quite nessicary to the pacing and story as a whole.

Pitt throws in his best performance since Fight Club. Every time he enters a shot I felt the tension in the scene grow exponentially. Not since Depp's performance in "The Libertine" have I seen an actor loom across a film with so little effort.

If you can controll your ADD and feel up to watching a film that will challenge you go see this as soon as possible.

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