Overrated beyond belief

Rating: Null/10 (28 January 2008)

First off, when you go to see a movie with Brad Pitt cast to play a Wild West outlaw, you're bound to get suspicious. I mean, Danny De Vito doesn't play Batman, does he? Brad Pitt and Wild West simply do not mix, and there is no plot great enough to conceal this miscasting.
Then there's Casey Affleck, whose acting skills (or lack thereof, which is a tradition in the Affleck family) leave you wishing someone would shoot him as soon as possible. His acting is unbearable, flat and one-sided. That's what he's nominated for Oscar for. Laughable.
Then you get curious as of what genre this flick belongs to. It's definitely no western (with that much blabbering throughout the movie, all traditional western characters would probably shoot themselves in the first 15 minutes), it's no psychological drama (not with a bunch of two-dimensional, stick figure characters), and it only falls into a bad comedy category due to some unfunny jokes that some of the characters utter from time to time.
Did I also mention that it's almost three hours long? Three hours of constant pointless talking, with only a couple of slow horse rides that take the characters to another location where they can continue to rattle their boxes just like all Wild West heroes used to do back then.
Overall, I failed to see anything worthy in this movie. It's beautifully shot, and that's about it.