High Plains Drifter
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Movie Reviews of High Plains Drifter
Movie Review: Best horror/western
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is amazing. The Stranger comes out of the ether in the beginning of the movie as a lone horserider appears like a blurry mirage riding through the desert. He enters the small mining town of Lago. All eyes are on him as he rides down the street. What happens next is original, violent, and politically incorrect. This movie should be seen by all fans of westerns and the twilight zone.
This is Eastwoods best work in my opinion. And the stranger is as removed from "The man with no name" as he is from "Josey Wales". People lump this movie in with the trilogy sometimes, but there are great differences between them. The Stranger is never in trouble, never in a position of weakness. He came to destory the town and deal out vengence on the people. This has more in common with "Needful Things" than anything. And King probably got some of his ideas from this movie.
The ending is up in the air. Was he the dead marshal, an avenging angel, the marshal's brother? You decide. I like the look of this movie, the sound, the premise. It is a classic. A friendly warning though there are some strong scences in this movie. But if you are as jaded as I am you will love this movie.
Movie Review: They'd never forget the day he drifted into town.
Summary: 5 Stars
Like all western films staring Clint Eastwood this turned out to be a complete surprise, it is one of the best westerns I have ever seen. In the coastal town of Largo a stranger (Clint Eastwood) arrives to protect the town against some ex-convict outlaws however the people of this small town are dispicable and might have bought on these problems themselves as they are a bunch of cowards and they see this stranger as an outsider or a threat and have already sent three of their men to kill him. There are so many memmorable scenes in this film which was directed by Clint and was his second directed film, some of these scenes include the one where the town's previous sherrif being whipped to death while nobody tried to help him or when the stranger with no name gets to paint the whole town red and calls it Hell just because he can which I thought was awsome. The film sometimes can be violent and there is a rape scene but it is not shown in graphic detail and most of it happens offscreen so its deffinetely not a chick flick infact its the total oppossite and if you liked this film then I also recommend these other western films starring Clint Eastwood The Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven, Pale rider and Hang' em high.Movie Review: Eastwood's first masterpiece as a director....
Summary: 5 Stars
This is Clint Eastwood's first masterpiece as a director. This was Eastwood's 3rd film (after Play Misty for Me and Breezy), and it still remains one of his best films. Misty and Breezy are excellent films, but this one is far better than both of them. Many critics have said this is a tongue in cheek Western. I digress strongly. Yes, there are humourous elements in it, but it's a morally complex, eerie, and brilliant piece of filmmaking. Eastwood's character doesn't really have a name, but this isn't an extension of his work with Sergio Leone. It has a lot to do with revenge, karma, greed, and what small town America in the west was really like. It wasn't like the idealised, "God-fearing" folk (that cliche gets a real takedown in this film) you see in typical Hollywood westerns. The ending is downright surreal, but it works brilliantly. Even the supporting players (especially Billy Curtis) are excellent here. A decent number of Eastwood's films have some bad acting in them in the supporting roles, but here that doesn't happen. Eastwood shot this masterpiece in 24 days, and under budget too. This was Clint's first great film.Movie Review: Clint's Homage to Sergio Leone
Summary: 5 Stars
Clint Eastwood starred as the "man with no name" in many of Sergio Leone's "Spagetti Westerns." Here, Eastwood directs his own similar-type western, although, at the end of this flick, we find out that Eastwood's character really does have a name.
After Eastwood rides into the town of Lago and kills the three hired guns who were the village's protectors, he is hired by the townspeople as a replacement gunman. They hope that Eastwood will protect them from a ruthless gang that was sent to jail on trumped up charges by the townspeople. The gang members have done their time and are now coming back to get their revenge. But it turns out that Eastwood has his own reasons for wanting some revenge too.
"High Plains Drifter" ranks with the best of Leone's westerns. It is an excellent film and a classic of the genre, with a supernatural twist.
Eastwood's forgettable "Pale Rider" was a sort of remake of "High Plains Drifter." In "Pale Rider," however, the individualistic message of "High Plains Drifter" was replaced by a communitarian one.
Movie Review: A "minor" classic?
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is only "minor" if you discard the Western as a medium. A huge amount of critical ink has nevertheless been expended on it. One obvious error: the "gunslinger" is not a reincarnation of the honest Jim Duncan.He is the nemesis of the townsfolk and in that role profoundly morally ambiguous.Some of the townsfolk even think he is the Devil !! Like all great Westerns its theme is basically extremely simple: no good will come of evil. The townsfolk make a terrible error in allowing their Sheriff to be murdered - after all he was only trying to expose wrongdoing ( the building of the mine on Govt land). HOW the gunslinger exposes their moral cowardice and hypocrisy IS the film. Not a minor but a major classic, including some fine cinematic moments ( the transformation of the town into the red-painted "hell" for example).Forget "Citizen Kane", this is probably the best-ever film by a director/lead actor,(Eastwood of course). Its moral impact is certainly far clearer if fairly right of center - well it IS a western !.