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July 9th, 2008

intertext: (Asta)
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 09:46 am
It can be a good thing to approach a movie with low expectations; often you are pleasantly surprised, as I was with this one. I ordered it from Zip with the notion that it was a Western (I like Westerns), and it had two of the most interesting actors working today in it (Russell Crowe and Christian Bale), so it certainly couldn't be all that bad.

It was considerably better than "not all that bad." I liked it a lot. I liked it better than Eastern Promises, which came with much more critical hoopla surrounding it. And the more I think about it, afterwards, the more I like it in retrospect. Read more... )