Appaloosa [Blu-ray]
by Ed Harris
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Actor: Ed Harris, Jeremy Irons, Renée Zellweger, Robert Jauregui, Viggo MortensenDirector: Ed Harris
Brand: NEW Line Home Video
Producer: Caldecot Chubb
Producer: Ginger Sledge
Producer: Kathryn Himoff
Writer: Robert B. Parker
Writer: Robert Knott
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2009-01-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Product features:
- Paired as rivals in A History of Violence, Ed Harris (who also directs, produces and co-scripts) and Viggo Mortensen stand together as friends and for-hire peacekeepers Cole and Hitch in a character-driven, bullet-hard Western based on Robert B. Parkers novel. As the woman who arrives in town with only a dollar and a keen sense of survival, Ren?e Zellweger adds feelings things that can get you kil
Movie Reviews of Appaloosa [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: A Gem Of A Cowboy Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Three memorable westerns have been made in recent years. Open Range [Blu-ray], 3:10 to Yuma [Blu-ray] and this movie. All are first rate cowboy movies with action and a great story. I consider 3:10 the lessor of the three because of the ending. I'd rate this up there with Open Range. Both Appaloosa and Open Range are top notch buddy flicks. Both tell stories of cowboy buddies that have known each other for years and are in a hard place and only have each other and themselves to get out alive. Both tell stories of cowboys with ethics, that do what is right. And both have a love story. And both stories show that buddies, no matter how long you have known them, there is still something you don't know about them.
The two main things that people find wrong with Appaloosa are the casting of Renee Zellweger (which to some extent I agree with but can't think of anyone who might fit better) and the film drags at times. I don't think it drags at times, though some may. I think the casting of Jeremy Irons was a little off, not because of how he played his role, but because most know he is English and associate him as English, not as a western rancher. But he handles the role well.
Overall, it is a GREAT western. I grew up on the spaghetti westerns of the 60s and 70s and think it is a great homage to those movies. When you watch the extras you find that there was total attention to detail even on a tight budget. They pulled off a masterpiece for a relatively small amount of money because Ed Harris got people he knew involved. The film really is a statement of what some great people in the motion picture industry think of Ed Harris. Its a great movie that anyone that enjoys westerns will enjoy.
Summary of Appaloosa [Blu-ray]
Paired as rivals in A History of Violence, Ed Harris (who also directs, produces and co-scripts) and Viggo Mortensen stand together as friends and for-hire peacekeepers Cole and Hitch in a character-driven, bullet-hard Western based on Robert B. Parkers novel. As the woman who arrives in town with only a dollar and a keen sense of survival, Renée Zellweger adds feelings--things that can get you killed--to a quest to bring murderer Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) to justice. Blood will spill in the town called Appaloosa.The Western has been an endangered species, on and off, for something like 40 years now. Welcome to Appaloosa, Ed Harris's film of the Robert B. Parker novel--first because it exists at all, but even more because Harris as star, director, and co-screenwriter (with Robert Knott) has managed to bring it to the screen with no hint of fuss or strain, as if the making of no-nonsense, copiously pleasurable Westerns were still something Hollywood did with regularity. Harris plays Virgil Cole, one of those ace gunfighter-lawmen whose name need only be mentioned to make a saloon go still. Cole and his shotgun-toting partner Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) accept a commission to enforce law and order in the New Mexico town of Appaloosa. That basically means protect it from rapacious rancher Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons, looking right at home on the range), who murdered the previous town marshal like swatting a fly. Life becomes complicated when, about the time Bragg has been jailed to await trial, a fancy-dressing piano player calling herself Mrs. French (Renée Zellweger) steps down off the train. Cole commences to have feelings, and as he ruefully reminds Hitch, "Feelin's can get ya killed."
In his second directorial effort (following the 2000 biopic Pollock), Harris takes his cue from novelist Parker's often deadpan-comic touch, allowing action and character to accumulate in accordance with an overall eccentric rhythm. (The film's main disappointment is that it would benefit from more running time to allow things to stew a bit longer, especially in the second half.) The character work is choice, from the moment Tom Bower, James Gammon, and Timothy Spall step into view as Appaloosa's civic leaders; the director's father Bob Harris contributes a cameo as a mellifluous-tongued circuit judge, and an age-thickened Lance Henriksen turns up midfilm as gunman Ring Shelton, trailing affability and menace. In collaboration with Dances With Wolves cameraman Dean Semler, Harris sets up shots and scenes in such a way that we often see into and out of Appaloosa's various buildings simultaneously, to excellent dramatic and atmospheric effect, and there's a thrillingly vertical dynamics to a scene involving a train at an isolated water stop. The action is lethal when it needs to be, but never dwelt upon. "That was over quick," Hitch observes after one gun battle. Cole's response says it all: "Everybody could shoot." --Richard T. Jameson
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