We've watched Open Range at a movie theater in Turkey, with my campus buddies in my past university years. Then after a couple years, I found myself renting the DVD version to have some rest at my apartment in Canada. Staying lonely at my place, I thought to get some team spirit from this western. From my second view of the movie, I thanked God that I was not living in country; for Open Range has implicated metropolitan suburban solitude to a such good story.
Despite the storyline is worthy to get satisfied a little, the audience of Open Range must not have any technical and performance-based expectations. Cinematography and camera movements are low-class for a western. Plus, I am not pleased to find a silent-western. This silence has some remembrance from Dances With Wolves or Wyatt Earp, if you have expected to see Kevin Costner as the Kevin Costner we know. Even though, there is no heroic elements nor any sensational piece of news. Moreover, there was no harmony between Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall. It seemed to me, they were sullen to each other as long as the movie goes. We can count up the number of times they look at each other in the eye, being under-oath mates; that makes us remember the duo of Clint Eastwood & Morgan Freeman in Unforgiven, who were speaking the silent language of the friendship glances. Basically, the cast was not in the mood to make a Western, if their main purpose is not to make an migration-to-country Eastern.
Out of the duo of Costner & Duvall, there is a successful joint named Annette Bening. Sadly confessing am I, that she is the only contribution to the movie to make it worth-to-see. So by the acting aid of Annette Bening, I gave Open Range 5 out of 10. Because, every sketch and every mimic of her; bonds us back to the story at the point where we got lost and fell into sleep as I did each time I saw this movie. It is incontestably evident her self-denial rises up the dramas to the industrial Hollywood standards, clearly acceptable since her magnificent effort from the 1999 masterpiece American Beauty.
Despite the storyline is worthy to get satisfied a little, the audience of Open Range must not have any technical and performance-based expectations. Cinematography and camera movements are low-class for a western. Plus, I am not pleased to find a silent-western. This silence has some remembrance from Dances With Wolves or Wyatt Earp, if you have expected to see Kevin Costner as the Kevin Costner we know. Even though, there is no heroic elements nor any sensational piece of news. Moreover, there was no harmony between Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall. It seemed to me, they were sullen to each other as long as the movie goes. We can count up the number of times they look at each other in the eye, being under-oath mates; that makes us remember the duo of Clint Eastwood & Morgan Freeman in Unforgiven, who were speaking the silent language of the friendship glances. Basically, the cast was not in the mood to make a Western, if their main purpose is not to make an migration-to-country Eastern.
Out of the duo of Costner & Duvall, there is a successful joint named Annette Bening. Sadly confessing am I, that she is the only contribution to the movie to make it worth-to-see. So by the acting aid of Annette Bening, I gave Open Range 5 out of 10. Because, every sketch and every mimic of her; bonds us back to the story at the point where we got lost and fell into sleep as I did each time I saw this movie. It is incontestably evident her self-denial rises up the dramas to the industrial Hollywood standards, clearly acceptable since her magnificent effort from the 1999 masterpiece American Beauty.