A good fundament that struggles with vapid realization

Rating: 6/10 (27 April 2008)

It's a quite good movie, that tries to find it's own sight on the case of Jesse James; and furthermore restyling cowboy aesthetics. Thus it uses the usual stylistic devices, rearranging them in a lyrical manner.
But the film has several deficits. It often stays flat and the short narrators parenthesis back up what they shouldn't: unreflectedness. Regarding the length of the film it narrows the pleasure and brakes the proceed too much. Nethertheless it fulfills its purpose by giving additional info's and insight views. - Not a difficulty but a lag of the movie is that despite actors doing a solid job they could have been used much better.
Overall it's a good movie. Because of its lenght and its further not mentionable but many little lags, it is unfortunately not worth seeing it twice. But if you like the story of Jesse James and authentic re-editions, you should see it.