What a surprise!

Rating: 8/10 (18 May 2008)

I expected: good acting, great cinematography but a rather boring story  the title saying it all. You get: good acting, an excellent cinematography, a great score . but also a compelling story, a story about friendship, loyalty and human weaknesses. In the course of the film it manages to make you feel for Jesse and above all quite unexpectedly Robert though they are all in all not very likable characters. Here Jesse James is not a hero and Robert Ford is not coward  How the movie makes you realize that in an almost slinking, Robert-Ford-kind-of way, is the wonder of this film about, well yes, just two mortal human beings like we all are.