A strange mix of the grand and the hackneyed that it never really gets its bearings -- even though, at its best, it reminds us how grand, impure and potentially alive the Western genre can be.
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08/14/03
Open Range (2003)
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Reviews Counted:168
Fresh:132
Rotten:36
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: A simple tale, well told, Open Range is one of Kevin Costner's better efforts.
Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Academy-Award® winning director Kevin Costner ("Dances with Wolves") helms this traditional Western tale of a way of life that is quickly disappearing. Boss Spearman (ROBERT DUVALL), Charley... [More]
Starring: Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon
Director: Kevin Costner
Reviews for Open Range
161 - 180 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Roaming the Old West with old hands like Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner is always worthwhile.
08/14/03
...bold, compelling and brilliant...
08/14/03
Open Range puts Kevin Costner at the reins of a terrific movie.
08/14/03
It won't be long before Kevin Costner films are viewed by prescription only._ No drug could come close to curing insomnia in the way that Kevin’s latest movie does.
08/13/03
Fits Costner's on screen sensibilities like a glove, making him seem as if he were born to play a craggy faced cowboy and nothing else.
08/13/03
A long, slow-moving Western. But the killing is good!
08/13/03
Costner fans, fans of Westerns, and adults looking for entertainment free of special effects should find something to cheer about in this ode to a bygone era.
08/13/03
If you like old-fashioned westerns filled with grandiose landscapes and even more extraordinary acts of heroism, this movie's for you.
08/13/03
Good old fashioned Western scenery. Great performance by Duvall. Slow at outset, weak accents, some holes, some implausibles.
08/13/03
In a summer where the Rocky-on-a-horse rip-off Seabiscuit is winning acclaim just for simply not being a sequel, here is a story that actually says something.
08/13/03
Affords the viewer a strong picture of the life of a 19th century cowpoke.
08/12/03
It also helps that Costner doesn’t allow the hurt inflicted against his oppressed free grazers to approach the wearisome political correctness of his Dances With Wolves.
08/12/03
Not only one of the best of the few Westerns made recently, it's also one of the finest Westerns, period.
08/12/03
Kevin Costner rises up from the carcass of his career to produce, direct and star in a flaccid ode to the classic Western.
08/12/03
The saga length of the story might have had more impact with less bloat and mythic gravity, a tendency that seems to pursue Costner like an underfed bronco.
08/12/03
Too many lengthy silences and butt-scratching pauses.
08/11/03
Top CriticThis is one of the finest Westerns since Unforgiven.
08/11/03
A western that wrestles briefly with Unforgiven introspection before contenting itself with fiddling around with a gun/dog fetish.
08/10/03
Open Range is a romantic, beautiful, and delightfully authentic Western.
08/10/03
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