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It's a western movie which isn't my favorite genre, but the reason i get into it because i love Casey Affleck, and he was nominated for an academy award for this part, so i thought, this should be interesting.
The Movie is about this guy Jesse James, the legend, the train robber/Bank robber, the thief, the guy who kills public figures and politicians, unfortunately the movie doesn't give you a look of any of that, the only thing you see is a single train robbery by a gang led by Jesse James and his old brother frank, and the robbery doesn't seem interesting at all, there weren't enough details about it or better yet, the director didn't spend much on that scene.
After the robbery, you get to see Robert Ford, the younger brother to five, the vulnerable guy, the guy who has been trashed his whole life, and no body takes him seriously, the guy who spent many years reading about Jesse and wanting to meet him and he get a chance to do that because his brother participated in the robbery with Jesse.
Robert always try to prove himself, try to mimic Jesse and learn from him, but nobody takes him seriously, so after Jesse escape town, the police put a ransom on his head, and robert decided to go for it, since Jesse already refused robert help in the robberies they do.
So after two and a half hours, the story is interesting and good, but there are Huge missing elements, first is Prad pitt performance, like i said before, he played Jesse James, the legend that you keep hearing about him before even seeing him, so you'd expect a middle aged, dark and mature man to play that character, but instead, you get a disappointing performance from brad pitt, i mean he wasn't terrible, but that shoes was really hard to fill, brad pitt got the accent right but he wasn't intimidating or dark, scary like he should be, you will see the other cast scarred of every word he says and you know that they're not reacting to brad pitt, they're reacting to what brad pitt should be, point being is that brad pitt was out of place in this movie and THAT'S a major flop that brought the movie to a lower level.
For me i would appreciated if Sam Shepard played Jesse instead of Brad pitt (Sam played Frank, Jesse older brother).
The other flop is the narration which was completely unnecessary and felt weird for the most parts, i mean the guy was literally narrating what we can see on the screen, so it didn't add anything to the story.
Aside from the good story, the only other thing that lift this movie is the supporting cast performances (all of them) aside from that the beautiful performance by Casey Affleck, i'd never expect him to deliver such a performance but he played the character so good, that i wasn't able to shut the movie down, which what i was thinking the whole time.

5/10
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Added by OsamaExKing
10 years ago on 30 July 2014 04:30