Where have all the good westerns gone?

Rating: 1/10 (29 September 2007)

I love westerns, they are my favorite genre both for reading and movies. I was excited to see this with Crowe and hoped it would have the grip of a good true western like The Quick and the Dead. Especially since it was a remake of an excellent film.
Not even close. Yes, it started with promise up through where the Ben Wade is taken into custody. The manner in which that happened and the the rest of the movie was a disappointment and an affront to the truly good westerns. Ben Wade is bad, real real bad...no he is good at least a little bit...no he is totally evil...no he has some redeeming qualities...blah blah blah.
By the time the film ended it was only Dan the one legged rancher about whom I had any feelings for and could care less that Ben was allowing himself to go off in the train so that Dan would get his Pinkerton money paid to his family who needed it now that he died. Ben will escape before the train reaches Yuma. The only good thing about Dan's death is that his son finally was proud of him.
Someone needed to watch Shane again to see how to do it in classic western style.