Post by JamesMFan on Dec 19, 2005 15:37:18 GMT -5
I watched this last night on TV. Generally speaking, I don't like Westerns much. Or, I've been watching the wrong ones.
But I thought this one was plenty fine.
Even if all there was to look at was Tommy Lee Jones with hippie hair.
Everyone looked mighty rough in this film, actually, which I guess was authentic. It had Cate Blanchett, the aforementioned Tommy LJ, and a few other people I didn't know. Oh, and Val Kilmer made an appearence.
The basic premise was that Maggie (Blanchett) was a healing woman and she had a sort of "thing" with this rather fine cowboy fellow. She also had two daughters and her husband had died a while ago.
One day a stranger (Jones) asks Maggies boyfriend if he can stay the night in the stables and see the healer. He goes to see her and she has a shocked reaction to seeing him.
He's her estranged father, of course!
He left her and her mum when they were young to go and become and Indian, travelling all over the place. She hates him.
Anywho, she sends her two daughters, her boyfriend and they're "hand" off to go sell some cattle. Only a horse comes back on it's own so she rides off after them.
She comes across the bodies of her boyfriend and the other man.
Her little girl is unharmed because she hid but the older daughter has been kidnapped by a bunch of Indians with a particularly scary and evil "brujo" as their leader. They're planning on selling the 8 girls they've stolen over to the Mexicans.
As usual, the police or the "guard" are useless and go in the wrong direction so Maggie has to reluctantly (of course) team up with her daddy to go find her daughter, with her little girl towing along.
There's thrills and spills and curses and horseriding along the way as a mother desperate to find her daughter, allys herself with the one man she swore never to trust again!
(that's my idea of a cinema summary)
Very good.
7/10.
But I thought this one was plenty fine.
Even if all there was to look at was Tommy Lee Jones with hippie hair.
Everyone looked mighty rough in this film, actually, which I guess was authentic. It had Cate Blanchett, the aforementioned Tommy LJ, and a few other people I didn't know. Oh, and Val Kilmer made an appearence.
The basic premise was that Maggie (Blanchett) was a healing woman and she had a sort of "thing" with this rather fine cowboy fellow. She also had two daughters and her husband had died a while ago.
One day a stranger (Jones) asks Maggies boyfriend if he can stay the night in the stables and see the healer. He goes to see her and she has a shocked reaction to seeing him.
He's her estranged father, of course!
He left her and her mum when they were young to go and become and Indian, travelling all over the place. She hates him.
Anywho, she sends her two daughters, her boyfriend and they're "hand" off to go sell some cattle. Only a horse comes back on it's own so she rides off after them.
She comes across the bodies of her boyfriend and the other man.
Her little girl is unharmed because she hid but the older daughter has been kidnapped by a bunch of Indians with a particularly scary and evil "brujo" as their leader. They're planning on selling the 8 girls they've stolen over to the Mexicans.
As usual, the police or the "guard" are useless and go in the wrong direction so Maggie has to reluctantly (of course) team up with her daddy to go find her daughter, with her little girl towing along.
There's thrills and spills and curses and horseriding along the way as a mother desperate to find her daughter, allys herself with the one man she swore never to trust again!
(that's my idea of a cinema summary)
Very good.
7/10.
Gotta love the horses and western theme behind it. It was done quite well, not all over the top, ride 'em cowboy style.
