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Title: Too Long
Review: Costner does better with westerns than most but he takes himself way too seriously. He goes on and on and on... The first hour is a good set up for the next hour and a half or so...Duvall is great, almost as if he wrote his own dialogue. It is not that "Open Range" is not a good movie. It is just not that good. The pace is slow, which i think is deliberate to set the tone and it works, again for about the first hour. But even when the story gets going, it does not have enough power. The violence is subdued, as is all of the acting, almost as if Costner the director did not want Costner the actor to look too enthuiastic. Because all of the actors do not seem to be as interested as they want the viewer to be involved with their lives. There are moments that are endearing, but not nearly enough to make you want to sit through the length of the movie. With a rewrite of a few scenes and a deletion of a scene or two and the movie would have been as good as any directed by and starring K C.
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