Appaloosa Review

We saw the new western Appaloosa the other night and I really liked it. I don’t know why I’m enjoying more westerns as of late, but I loved 3:10 to Yuma and the Brad Pitt Jesse James movie that came out recently. Appaloosa fits right in with those but has a little more humor. The actors are also great. Here’s some of the review I wrote for New Man:

Double Shot: Appaloosa

The Lone Ranger and Tonto. Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Frank and Jesse James. Marty McFly and Doc Brown. Into those hallowed halls of revered cowboy friendships come the fearless team of Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, immortalized in the new film Appaloosa, written and directed by Ed Harris.

Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) is the leader of a wild bunch of outlaws who have the townsfolk of Appaloosa quiverin’ in their boots, unable to even enjoy a pint of whiskey without his posse turning the bar into a public urinal. Enter Cole (Harris) and Hitch (Viggo Mortensen), traveling gunslingers, who make their quick-draw services available to the town in exchange for unquestioned authority. They quickly put the public urinators in the grave or on the run and give Bragg a reason to finally watch his back.

Read the rest at: http://www.newmanmag.com/e-magazine/100908/story7.php