3:10 To Yuma

Rating: 7/10 (23 October 2010)

I am not a huge fan of westerns. Some I really like and other famous westerns just leave me feeling bored. So finally after a long time I sat down to watch 3:10 to Yuma.
I really enjoyed it. Christian Bale and Russel Crowe both give great performances as does Ben Foster. The direction is pretty good and keeps you entertained.
The movie like all westerns is about men trying to do something beyond themselves. Men dying to prove something to themselves, their wives, their children. It is about a criminal who has lost many things in life. Never had a family or a home and finally gets a chance to do something good. He decides to do it.
3:10 to Yuma can be seen as some sort of ode to the human need to be liked and do good for others. Being bad gives one immense pleasures but there is nothing really like doing good because inside we really need to feel happy while going to sleep whatever someone might say.
And that is what 3;10 to Yuma is all about.