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movie review - 3:10 to Yuma

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

I ennoyed this miserably violent Western about a group of men who try to bring a notorious robber to justice. Included in this group is a local citizen who helped track the robber. It's somewhat more psychological than movies of this genre go, and what I found interesting was how the relationship between the two leads developed.

Aside from that, it's a straight-up formula piece with stage-coaches, riders on horses, rifles, whisky, the odd female presence, and psychopaths for hire. So many psychopaths. I will say, as god-awful as many of the characters are, you can believe their motivations and you get a sense of their relationships through natural dialog rather than exposition or clumsy spoon-feeding.

Recommended.