A remake of the classic film starring John Wayne by the Coen Brothers (Fargo, Blood Simple) and stars Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Hailee Steinfeld and Barry Pepper. It was nominated for 10 Academy Awards (but the big winner that night was KING'S SPEECH).
The story: a young girl's father is killed and she hires a bounty hunter to bring the killer in to justice. However, there is a marshall who wants the criminal brought to justice for different crimes and the girl doesn't want that, she wants the criminal to go to jail for killing her father so now they are competing for that.
Was it good?
Not really.
Look, I know it's the Coen Brothers and Jeff Bridges is always entertaining, and I guess if you like westerns where people mumble a lot, but there's just not much here. It's like a less compelling version of TAKEN where they are trying to grab a criminal instead of his daughter and you really don't care if they suceed or not.
To it's credit, it's very different than TAKEN. TAKEN was an energic action B-movie made cool by Liam Neeson. This movie is slow, has a lot of humor (much from Matt Damon, who seems miscast so you can't tell if you are laughing with him or at him). And the end for me didn't do anything either. It wasn't deep, it wasn't exciting.
The movie just didn't do anything for me.
*** AVOID ***
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