I expected more.

Rating: 6/10 (2 March 2008)

Slow and morose. The cinematography was very very good. Casey Affleck proved himself a much better actor than his brother. Brad Pitt held his course from a theatrical standpoint. The supporting characters were under-developed, and confusing. The movie is very watchable, but not a masterpiece in it's entirety. If the middle 100 minutes were chopped in half, or used to develop the back story, in my opinion, the movie would have been more enjoyable. The first and last 15 minutes were much more engaging.
It seems that the story held to the actual events as much as possible, but some deviation for the sake of the viewer is OK with me. Tombstone is a great example of this.