Too long, too slow, to theatrical

Rating: 5/10 (11 January 2013)

I am surprised to see such high ratings. I for one did not like this movie. There are some positives to it: a great performance for the secondary actor, a powerful social picture of all the bad things humans are capable of doing to one another. But a part from that i found the movie unsatisfying
1. It is too long for the story that is depicted, the action is slowly revealing, and there is no substance, no subtle meat to fill in the void. It's just a movie made by a director who played cowboys when he was a kid and got a bit twisted to his head as an adult.
This movie is not about the pain of slaves in the 18 hundreds - it could have been, but in stead it turned out to be simply a movie about cowboys that shoot each other in very unrealistic forms.