Another superb western to add to my collection

Rating: 9/10 (11 October 2007)

Not many westerns are being made any more, but it seems those that are being made are very good indeed. The last excellent western was Open Range, but this movie is much much better. The acting is excellent with Russell Crowe giving an outstanding performance as a very bad man with a streak of goodness still left in him. I thought Christian Bale was playing the hero but the true hero of this movie was his son played by Logan Lerman. A truly great movie must have a great bad guy, this movie had two of them, one played by Crowe and one played to perfection by Ben Foster(Charlie Prince), you just knew that if he got his way people were gonna die. Lots of action, great dialog, tension, a few twists, and in the end a satisfying conclusion.