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Title: Too Confusing
Review: I must give 'Heaven's Gate' credit for being one of, if not the most, beautifully shot films I've ever seen. Michael Cimino is/was a very talented director, but the compliments will stop there. Its almost impossible to describe the plot because it is an absolute mess. And that's an understatement. The movie give no time for us to understand anything that is going on, and it is 3 hours and 40 minutes long!!Apparently it is trying to tell the story of the Johnson County wars. How many people know what the heck that is? I know I don't know, and neither does the majority of the American public. I don't recall me learning it in history and the same can be said about most people. With that said, 'Heaven's Gate' should have told us something about the war before the movie began, but it doesn't.It goes from one scene to the next without any coherancy. After watching it, I got the feeling I'd just watched a blank screen for over three hours. See it only for curiosity.
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