I'm always wary of remakes and True Grit is a case in point. It's just an entertaining, two dimensional western. The actors are strong but fail to make their characters sufficiently complex. Kim Darby frankly annoyed me with her chiselled determination more resembling Mt Rushmore than a young adult beset by conflicting loyalties and barely supressed self doubt that enriches a performance and invites audience empathy. Jeff was quite OK but with too many gravelly wiseacres. jak Jones : 12 Feb 2011 12:00:02pm ((True Grit))[[10]] Its the story that makes it and the actors that bring it too life then the cohens third. Awesome movie. Margaret. IMHO Its only in the last decade or so that films are being made how they should be due to technolodgy. I cannot watch the old films due to the unrealism of special effects andd social constraints that affect interpretation and the often poor customes e.g. clean cowboys. watch the old version!!! forget it. John Wayne, Sinatra and the like = bad memories Stephen Saunders : 12 Feb 2011 11:12:01am ((True Grit))[[6]] There seems to be an unwritten code that the ordinary Coen movies have to be praised as much as the good ones. This is quite an ordinary Coen movie, craftsmanlike and mostly enjoyable, but rather losing its way by the third reel. I couldn't see that Hailee Steinfeld was such a great 'find', although she was not always assisted by the wordy dialogue that the Coens served up to her. Aunt Peg