Maybe its because I love Altman's, McCabe and Mrs Miller

Rating: 6/10 (28 November 2007)

Clearly, I am in something of a minority, but I just didn't get into this meandering and somewhat pretentious would be epic. Brad Pitt is fine, of course, but because he underplays his role, even he cannot raise this above the level of an overlong TV documentary. Maybe its because I love Altman's, McCabe and Mrs Miller, so that I fail to find this in any way at all well shot. True there are one of two rather fetching shots, I recall a cornfield, an amazing sky and the oncoming train, but so there should be in a film this long! The film does eventually seem to finish, only to start up again and give us another half hour with Robert Ford making the most of the post James years. Little action or violence and lots of very ordinary dialogue.