When Will Edward Zwick Stop Inflicting His Movies on Us?

Rating: 4/10 (17 March 2009)

Edward Zwick makes pretty but quite terrible movies, and "Legends of the Fall" is no exception.
This leisurely yarn has something to do with brothers working on a cattle ranch falling for the same woman. I don't remember much about it except for numerous shots of Brad Pitt riding by on a horse, lovely locks flowing in the breeze, and a rather embarrassing performance by Anthony Hopkins, who plays the brothers' dad and spends the last half of the film stumbling around after his character suffers a stroke. Julia Ormond is pretty but vapid -- she's a less talented and less interesting version of Juliette Binoche.
The whole thing might go down smoother if director Zwick didn't feel the need to constantly pound everything down your throat.
Grade: C-