Heaven's Gate (1980)
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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... [More]
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, John Hurt
Director: Michael Cimino
Reviews for Heaven's Gate
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A public health menace.
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A second look at Cimino's 1981 epic Western suggests that it has some merits and certainly is not the total catastrophe some critics consider it to be. Full Review |
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A- |
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. Full Review |
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8/10 |
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.
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1/5 |
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0.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
A great movie which did not deserve the lousy reputation heaped on it by vituperative critics. Full Review |
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The lie of frontier idealism is debunked, and Vilmos Zsigmond's mistily gorgeous cinematography is virtually an act of mourning in and of itself. Full Review |
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0/5 |
Heaven's Gate' is something quite rare in movies these days -- an unqualified disaster. Full Review |
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2/5 |
It is sensitive and it is condescending. It has enormous ambition and winds up with nothing to say. Eventually, it’s just sadly exhausting. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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3/5 |
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2/5 |
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2/5 |
Too long and pretentious to properly work -- shave off a good half-hour and you might have something.
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2/5 |
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Such attention to detail cannot overcome the impatience audiences will feel with this overlong film. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Because of its ambition, the film is sometimes sloppy, but that sloppiness is forgivable because it’s the exalted, compelling kind. Full Review |
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