Rating of
2.5/4
Story lacks the whole essence of Jesse James
BryanFury - wrote on 02/28/08
Modern day viewers would not be as enthusiastic to see such a very lengthy movie like this. From the title alone you could almost tell how everything's going to end. Well duh, Jesse James is gonna die of course. Seems unreal though that he would just turn his back on the one person he can't trust. Not only that he knew from the very beginning what those phonies were thinking. He knew every move and every detail like he was one step ahead. But then little did he know all is going to end with a smudge of dust on a painting. A poetic way to go, of course not but everyone's seemed to care how the outlaw got assassinated. Two things I would like to mention, first is the cinematography and second is Casey Affleck. The two things or rather the corner stones that build up this monumental film. Although I felt a little empty in the end, maybe because of the film's content. Almost everything was uninteresting to me. I only like what I saw with my eyes but then all was pretty much boring. You could say the heart of this movie was Casey Affleck. Performance wise he did a decent job, but I think he could do better. As I’ve said the scenes were spectacularly designed even close to majestic. Brad Pitt’s acting job is not bad but not good either. Overall a little disappointed I was in the end. I would not recommend it to anyone, just to those people with a good sense of taste in films.
