boring! boring!boring!

Rating: Null/10 (14 July 2008)

a long winded title for a long winded film, that thinks its characters are truly wonderful people. they are not, from jesse downwards we are dealing with thieves and murderers, and nothing more, the dialogue is trite, the endless shots of nothing, the interminable scenes that go no where. i have to say this, the majority of IMDb users seem to be people who are intent on showing of by posting comments that are as pretentious and long winded as the films they like. this story warrants a film of no more than 90 minutes long, that's how long it should have taken the makers to tell their story and make their point, which how adulation turns to bitterness and then revenge, i suppose this style owes a great deal to that other long winded film maker sergio leone, who started of well and as his popularity increased his films got longer and longer till they really started to get boring almost from the beginning, i know there is a generation of film goers that think his films are masterpieces, these are people who do not know about economy of story telling or how to keep whats in the frame interesting, clint eastwood went on to become a brilliant filmmaker by taking the good and then being able to tell a story simply, directly and with great emotion, the outlaw josey wales, is worth a thousand jesse james, and can be viewed again and again.