Awesome film!

Rating: 10/10 (4 October 2008)

Either Hollywood really hates Westerns, or this movie was just too good for them. How else to explain them completely ignoring this film's performances (Crowe, Bale, Fonda, Foster), story, direction and cinematography with Academy Award nominations? Forget "Unforgiven" and "Dances with Wolves". This is the best Western to come out in the last twenty years...period! Mangold and company have not only improved on the original, they have surpassed it in overall quality and, sadly, made the original appear dated and irrelevant.
This re-imagining of "3:10 to Yuma" is truly a classic, hitting all the clichés of previous Westerns, but adding its own modern twists and providing a moral weight I haven't seen in years. This is a "soft" R film. Relatively mild and infrequent profanity and graphic but not gratuitous violence.
This is truly a bargain at any video store, since it didn't do so well in theaters and, because of this, prices lower than most of the crap Hollywood turns out. Do not miss this film!