3:10 to Yuma
2007
**½
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Logan Lerman, Peter Fonda, Ben Foster
A thoroughly ordinary Western about a down-and-out rancher who agrees to escort a charismatic outlaw to a train to Yuma Prison. After revisionist masterpieces like Unforgiven, it is difficult to get excited about an old-fashioned cowboy movie that offers nothing but genre tropes, which include a stagecoach chase, an attack by Indians, and a climactic shoot-out through a Western town.
