Ed Harris is Virgil Cole and his deputy Everett Hitch (Virgo Mortensen) come to the small town of Appalooza where the law enforcement is weaksauce and the town is suffering at the hands of a rancher named Randall Bragg that means to own everything in it. Cole and Hitch are hired as the top law enforcement to keep everyone in line and they don't take any bullshit. You break the law, you go to jail. You resist going to jail your shot dead.
Decent Western here but slow moving a lot of the time with lots more dialogue than actual action and shootouts. Throw in an out of town widow (Renée Zellweger) to complicate and distract Virgil Cole from doing his job and there's your dash of love story to this film. Basically the battle between Virgil Cole Keeping peace and Randall Bragg (not flagg from The Dark Tower) trying to take over things.
It didn't help that I'd been up for 20 hours before watching this one and it nearly put me to sleep. Thumbs in the middle. 3:10 To Yuma was a lot better.
5/10 Probably a good film for the older generations.
Next potential review- Quarrantine
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