Bang Bang

Rating: 7/10 (19 February 2008)

Very cool, very stylish, a new approach towards the western cowboy movie welcomed back. Those slow train coming scenes just before the symbolically ghostlike gang hop on to what is going to be their last train robbery together by night, those scenes are so marvelously shot and definitely going to remain engrained in my mind as top classic in cinema. Brad Pitt pulls off the role of Jesse James very convincingly predictably and so does the rest of the cast do a great job to give this film an all round quality. I love the color and I love how all throughout the film there is this echoing poetry. The story itself, a sad one, at least here were we seem to be witnessing what appears to be the end of a long Saga between the members of the Jesse James gang. Everybody seems to be splitting. I think Jesse James actually lets Robert Ford hand on out of a sense of nostalgia, due to Ford's youthful thirst for adventure, excitement, all things expiring in Jesse himself. The times they are changing. The Assassination itself does indeed recall those last scenes in the movie "Road to Perdition", the likes of which I think are brilliant to say the least, they are sublime. Then Nick Cave just had to butt in there with the famous song, did he not? This is a great movie, I definitely recommend.