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02/09/06
Heaven's Gate (1980)
45 %
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Reviews Counted: 20
Fresh: 9
Rotten:11
Average Rating: 5/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 42 mins
Genre: Westerns
Synopsis: An epic post-Vietnam look at the Western genre and the exploitation of immigrant settlers, HEAVEN'S GATE is based on the historical 1890s Johnson County War incident in Wyoming. Visually remarkable sequences and a haunting score frame... [More]
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, John Hurt
Director: Michael Cimino
Reviews for Heaven's Gate
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07/22/08
Top Critic
If you can get past its self-indulgences, somewhat ineffectual action scenes and other structural flaws in its filmmaking, it's really quite a remarkable film.
03/05/06
Maybe not the masterpiece Cimino intended, but in its 219-minute version Heaven's Gate is a very good Western, and not nearly the disaster some have unfairly labeled it.
02/15/06
This movie is $36 million thrown to the winds. It is the most scandalous cinematic waste I have ever seen, and remember, I've seen Paint Your Wagon.
10/23/04
Top Critic has considerable curiosity value... as an important piece of contemporary film history and as an example of how a filmmaker got it so wrong by trying so hard to get it right.
10/11/04
A great movie which did not deserve the lousy reputation heaped on it by vituperative critics.
10/07/04
The lie of frontier idealism is debunked, and Vilmos Zsigmond's mistily gorgeous cinematography is virtually an act of mourning in and of itself.
10/06/04
Heaven's Gate' is something quite rare in movies these days -- an unqualified disaster.
08/30/04
Top Critic It is sensitive and it is condescending. It has enormous ambition and winds up with nothing to say. Eventually, it’s just sadly exhausting.
04/18/04
Such attention to detail cannot overcome the impatience audiences will feel with this overlong film.
06/05/02
Top Critic Because of its ambition, the film is sometimes sloppy, but that sloppiness is forgivable because it’s the exalted, compelling kind.
03/31/02
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