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It seems the genre of the Western is slowly being brought back to life. Last year saw the release of the remake of 3:10 to Yuma , and now we have Appaloosa , another great addition to the ranks of those horse-ridin’ and gun-slingin’ movie heroes. “Yuma” had two great stars headlining…
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Directed by Ed Harris, written by Harris and Robert Knott, adapted from the novel by Robert B. Parker. With Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger and Jeremy Irons. Distributed by Warner Bros./New Line.
WHEN YOU look over Ed Harris' extensive filmography, it's surprising how few Westerns he's made. He seems ideally suited for the genre - rugged, serious, don't talk much - and his new film, "Appaloosa," which he also co-wrote and directed, gives him a great chance to act tough, ride horses and chase bad guys.
"Appaloosa" is the sort of solid, simple Western that Hollywood used to crank out 20 times a year. Ed Harris, working from a Robert Parker novel, has crafted a meticulously detailed, newfangled old-fashioned morality tale about hard men who go soft when a woman comes between them.
Virtually all Waugh's ideas have been turned on their head. The adapters seem to have felt they know better than the man who wrote the original. And you know what? They don't.
TORONTO - It took him eight years, but Ed Harris finally got to direct another movie. "Appaloosa," a loping, likable Old West yarn about friendship, power, corruption and a woman with fierce instincts for self-preservation, is something the four-time Oscar-nominated actor cottoned to (as they say in those oaters) when he read Robert B. Parker's novel back in 2005.
'Appaloosa' {4stars}Ed Harris co-wrote, directed and stars in this old-school Western about a hired gun (Harris) and his partner (Viggo Mortensen) who bring justice to a town besieged by an outlaw (Jeremy Irons, having a ball). Their lives are complicated by the arrival of a woman (Renee Zellweger). Harris and Mortensen are good, the latter especially so. (R - 114 minutes) P,V.