A good movie with a simple story.

Rating: 8/10 (8 September 2007)

You don't usually see westerns like this. This was a slow moving film, with some action, but mostly dialog, and it was very entertaining. Ben Wade (Russel Crowe) and his band of loyal men are tough and evil guys. When Ben is caught and escorted on horseback to the 3:10 train to Yuma by a group of men including Dan Evans (Christian Bale), Wade's men stop at nothing to get their boss back. Dan Evans is a farmer that needs to get Mr. Wade to the train to Yuma to get $200 so he can keep his farm. It's a very straightforward film with a really standard plot (obviously seen before in the original), and it's also very slow. The slow plot helps it. It's one of the few films where we get to know the good guys and bad guys as actual characters. I was interested the entire time and though I personally didn't like the ending that well, it still worked. I highly recommend this for fans of westerns or just good movies.
My rating: *** out of ****. 114 mins. R for violence.