The rebirth of a genre?

Rating: 9/10 (20 November 2007)

"The science fiction films are going in the same way of the westerns, there is nothing original, we have seen everything". I read this phrase of Ridley Scott (producer of this film) in an article about "The assassination of JJ by the coward RF" before i watch the film.
I saw this film yesterday and i was thinking in that phrase because i really like this film so with "3:10 to Yuma" and soon with "No country for old men", Hollywood is trying to rebirth the most American genre in films and at least this film (i haven't seen the others)is a new type of western, not the classic one with heroes and shots everywhere.
I mean this film contains all the elements of a classic western but it focus more into the character's minds and that's make it different so i think this the best western since Unforgiven and that is a film of 1992.
I mean, there is the classics of the genre with the legendary John Wayne (The Searchers, Rio Bravo, etc.)making team with John Ford and with the great Howard Hawks. My personal favourite of this classics is Rio Bravo which is one of the best westerns ever, but latter there was just clichés in westerns until an Italian re-bird the most American genre: Segio Leone (one of my favourites directors ever) came with his "Spaghetti westerns" like The dollars trilogy with the great Clint Eastwood and of course the mystic "Once Upon A Time In The West". In this films there's my favourite western of all time: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. After that there were good films but it was until Eastwood's Unforgiven that the westerns were back again.
So after a quick resume of the most popular westerns, i most say that the "The assassination....." is one of my favourite films of this year and i'm almost sure that the Academy is going to give some nominations to this film because Hollywood is trying to rebirth a genre that belong to America and to Sergio Leone.
Finally,Brad Pitt make his best performance in the last years and the photography is amazing just like the way the story is told and well the plot is already in the title. Highly recommendable. 9.5 out of 10