Excellent Western

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2008)

Rancher Dan Evans (Bale) hires on to help escort top outlaw Ben Wade (Crowe) to the train station for transport to the prison in Yuma.
After seeing this I think many will agree that the Western needs to come back big time. This is terrific and it's the acting that steals the show. You didn't want it to end. Yes, give all the actors Oscars as they are all deserving. When you put good dialogue with good actors you get the gold and there is no other way to say it. Hell, I was ready to saddle up and ride with them.
One of the best lines in the story has some of the Pinkerton men saying they don't want Wade to know where they are taking him. Wade (Crowe ) says something like - it would be nice to know in case we get separated then we could meet up again. HA! How good is that?
Some F-bombs were dropped (only) in the beginning and why they do that is beyond me. To get an R rating? Putting Mature Theme and Violence would seem, to me, to be good enough to get an R rating, but I wasn't consulted.
Violence: Yes; Sex: No; Nudity: No; Language: Yes, some in the beginning only.