310: TO YUMA-2007
Director: James Mangold
Writer(s) : Derek Haas, Halsted Wells, Michael Brandt
Story : Elmore Leonard
Genre: Drama, Western Action
Run Time: 117 minutes
Rating : R
Starring: Russell Crowe, Christan Bale, logan Lerman, Peter Fonda, Vanessa Shaw
This film is a creditable remake no better than the original but different enough to stand on its own. With an A-list cast, a monster budget and a classic western feel this movie has the full treatment. The scenery's wide open and grand scale, the motivations are primal, and the bad guys are ultra badass complete with black hats and the good guys (our hero's, stands their ground). And there's a grand climactic shootout, you'll be glad to know, that justifies all the sitting around the characters do in the plot, while they wait for that trie to life titular train.
Russell Crowe who plays, Ben Wade is the badass in this remake, a very ruthless killer who sketches birds and pretty girls when he and his gang aren't slaughtering innocents and robbing stagecoaches equipped with crankable machine guns. Christian Bale (Dan Evans) is the troubled but principled rancher who, for a variety of painstakingly established reasons, will escort Crowe to the prison cell on the first car of the Yuma-bound 3:10 train, come hell or high noon.
The Eye Candy in this film is Vanessa Shaw who plays, emma nelson and Gretchen Mol who plays alice evans both these ladies are stunning beauties!
Nothing terribly original happens in this remake of a 1957 semi-classic that starred Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, but everything happens smoothly and with grace. Director James Mangold (Walk the Line) makes the emotions count and keeps the action fluid. And he's had the wit to allow Ben Foster (who was an arty wimp on Six Feet Under and sprouted an angel's wings in the latest X-Men extravaganza) to steal every scene he walks into as the most implacably murderous of Crowe's henchmen. This movie has a good solid ending and I do recomend it highly if your a western fan!
8/10 Stars