Just watched 3:10 to Yuma.

I was totally with it until about the last fifteen minutes. Then, it all kind of fell apart for me. The problem is 1) It becomes pretty unbelievable at that point, and 2) You could argue that the villain still comes off looking "cooler" than the hero (and that he didn't necessarily lose.).

Not a bad movie, but that last fifteen minutes did almost ruin it for me. They were doing so good up until then, too. Aarrrgghh!!!

There are some good performances, especially by Bale and Crowe. Overall, though, I have to say that I prefer the original.

I saw it last night, and Bob summed up my feelings exactly. I could have lived with # 1, but the resolution was unsatisfactory for me. Maybe a "Director's Cut" will provide an alternate ending....

Yay! Someone else saw it! Now, I can bitch!

That ending was horrible.



Seriously - WTF was the matter with the people who wrote this script? The more I think about that ending, the more annoyed I get.

Is Kevin Costner the only one who can make a decent Western anymore (unless Eastwood decides to direct another one, but I've seen no hint of that.)?

Oh, yeah. Forgot about that last part.

If I had to bet on it, I'd wager that the filmmakers were intimidated by Crowe's star power. It's Russell Crowe, so he has to look cool, no matter what. Bad, bad judgement, in any case.

I was looking forward to this movie, so I'm really disappointed. I hate it when the ending ruins what could have been a good film.

That's funny because that's how The Prestige kinda came off to me as well.

Har! My brother HATED that ending.........we still argue about it all the time.(I liked it........I liked it even more, when I realised how much he hated it )

I have to respectfully totally disagree with all you all. I loved 3:10 to Yuma and thought the ending made perfect sense.

My brother said it was an unbelievably good movie.

Probably have no time until dvd though/

I'm basically with Kevin on this.

I'm sorry, I'm just not getting the same impression that you all are. We'll have to agree to disagree. Except you're wrong.

As are you!

No!

Sorry, but we must fight from now until doomsday.

HONOR DEMANDS IT!!!!!!

My wife and I enjoyed it a lot.

Just saw it...great flic but as Bob said it does indeed fall apart at the end...which is too bad because the acting was great as was the pacing and action throughout.

Late to the party, but Steve was the most correct in this thread.

I just watched this last night for the first time, and I loved it. Best film I've seen in a while, and certainly best western I've seen in years. Man, that was a different kind of film.

Some of the criticisms I'm reading here in this thread are overly sentimental, in my view. They seem to reflect a view that things are a certain way, and so the film should come out a certain way. But everything, and I mean just about every single thing, points in the opposite direction in this film.

Ben Wade lives in a nihilistic, godless universe. He is the master of it. But he is touched by some indescribable power in Dan's character. Something he can't touch. Something he thinks he maybe missed the boat on.

Dan is a giant of a man -- and flowing against all film convention and trite devices, it's not because he's tough or smart, skilled, or even lucky. It is the totally of his character that is like the Rock of Gibraltar. He is (to me) the quintissential pioneer American -- he is determined to make a go of it on the farm, and determined that he will never, ever give up.

As events unfold, we the audience become overwhelmed at the almost supernatural iron will he displays, at the sense of duty that is awakened in Dan. And we sense that Ben feels it to -- that since the first time in his life since his mother left him at 8 with that Bible, he feels a stirring of meaning in his heart. Not redemption, not goodness. Just that he can't help himself for rooting for Dan.

SPOILER LEVEL INCREASE FOLLOWS

The last 15 minutes is the most unconventional heroism I can remember seeing. It is bold, bold, "I will not give up, no matter what," and Ben is the one who's will is bent -- it's suggested more and more clearly that he's helping Dan, by running with gusto, and by warning him. Then it becomes explicit -- he doesn't want Dan to fail. Ben has not become a "good" man (if there is such a thing). But he has been deeply affected, and on that day he has decided that Dan was the biggest heart he's ever seen. Dan got him to the train. Ben shoots his whole gang, not just because Dan must succeed, but because he is a bit disgusted with them and how his life has turned out. One wonders what kind of life Ben could have led (with his super skill) if he had been inspired by a Dan-figure early in life (as Dan's son now is).

One wonders what it really is that lives within our human hearts that gives us a sense of transcendant honor, and good. Ben has seen it for the first time. Dan went out in a way that we could all hope for. Ben may escape, but I'm not sure he will ever forget what he might have been.

But it rains or not at the end of the new version?

The Rain was the most important of the old film, not the moral ambiguity, poor farmers suffering a drought...