Hmm, this one is difficult. I have a few suggestions to offer - first, try not to keep either the Kurosawa classic or the Sturges remake in mind when you go for this film; second, try to cope with the fact that Denzel Washington is upstaged by Chris Pratt; third, try not to remember Eli Wallach's lines from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: "If you want to shoot, shoot; don't talk".
At 132 minutes, this movie was probably 25 minutes too long. The characters have great promise but have not been etched finely enough. The prairie landscape looked distinctly like a painted set in parts.
Sure, as a stand-alone, it's a great entertainer. But we're too complex these days to look at anything stand-alone: like financial results, it has to be consolidated; and in a consolidated view, this film fails.
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