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The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2 Disc Limited Collector's Edition) [2007]


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Unbelievably boring!
Review date: 2008-11-21 Rating: 2 out of 10

Strange how many people find a short condemnation of something unhelpul.
Both my wife and I agreed that this was the most tedious film we have ever watched through to the finish. Much of the dialogue needed to be read in subtitles. The pace was deadly slow. This was a case where real life produced a wholly unattractive set of characters doing awful things. How ironic that the murder of a brutal thug should be followed by universal condemnation of his killer who in turn was murdered by someone susequently granted a pardon!
Historic curiousity attracted me to the film. I should have stuck to Wickpedia.

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absolute briliance
Review date: 2008-06-12 Rating: 10 out of 10

I watched this film expecting to like it and was pleasantly suprised. It could even be, dare I say it, one of my favourite films.
The acting by all of the actors is faultless but Brad Pitt as the clearly quite disturbed Jesse James and Casey Affleck as Robert Ford are brilliant. The atmosphere between the two characters is electric from the outset and is built apon throught the film untill the actuall assasination. You even feel sorry for Robert Ford before the inevitable happens. The film itself flows almost like poetry, helped by a narrator that gives a narrative of the final years of Jesse James as the film goes on. Some reviewers have commented on how 'even the narrator sounds bored' but to me, the slow, dreary voice of the narrator works in the films favour.
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Actor(s):
Sam Rockwell
Casey Affleck
Sam Shepard
Mary Louise Parker
Brad Pitt

Creators:
Brad Pitt (Primary Contributor)
Casey Affleck (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
EAN: 7321902217420
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 2
Format: Colour, Dolby, PAL, Subtitled, Surround Sound,
Release date: 2008-03-31
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 153 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2007
Language: English (Original Language)

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