An average movie

The 70’s are usually considered the Golden Age of American cinema and, at the time, the studios were willing to give a lot of money and some amazing amount of freedom to directors such like Francis Ford Coppola to do whatever they wanted. Well, Michael Cimino managed to single-handedly halt this blessed period with ‘Heaven’s Gate’ which turned out to be a disaster, financially and critically. His career would never recover and since then the American movie production has been ruled by blockbusters and it won’t change anytime soon. Cimino would manage to direct only 4 other movies following the 30 years after the ‘Heaven’s Gate’ disaster and this flick was the last one he made, almost 20 years ago already. Again, it was another flop and it was barely seen it was released but I thought it was actually not bad at all. In fact, if I recall it correctly, I even saw it in the movie theater when it was released. Basically, it is a rather small scale drama and, indeed, the story was rather pedestrian and predictable but, even so, I really enjoyed the performance by Woody Harrelson, one of the most underrated actors at work nowadays, and for once, he wasn’t playing a tough guy, actually quite the opposite, but he did a very good job. Anyway, to conclude, even though it was nothing really amazing, I still think it is worth a look though, especially if you like the genre.

6/10