Written
October 5, 2007
3:10 Revisited
As a rule, I don't like remakes( the wife's trying futily to get me to go see "Heartbreak Kid"), but this do-over of the 1957 Western, starring Glenn Ford as the outlaw,Ben Wade, and Van Heflin as good guy, Dan Evans, (from a short story by one of my fave writers, Elmore Leonard), was due to be remade: and the resulting film was worth the wait! Russell Crowe as Wade, and Christian Bale as Evans, give powerful, insightful performances as they intertwine on their journey through bad guys, injuns', and connivin' railroaders to bring Wade to justice. The Western movie genre "ain't what it used to be", but this flick is the best of it's kind in a long while. Though it isn't "Unforgiven"(Eastwood's classic), it will not go unforgotten.
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