3:10 To Yuma (2007)

It has been awhile since ive seen a decent western, to me it seems like a lost genre. We use to have a lot of solid films come out, mainly from one of my favorites, Clint Eastwood with great films like The Unforgiven and of course The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly. 3:10 To Yuma really brings you back to the classic western film genre that has been lost and does a great job doing so.

This film is packed with an all star cast of Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Ben Forester, Alan Tudyk and Peter Fonda. If you ask me, they all did spectacular jobs, from pulling off a grizzled western accent to the delivery. If theres one thing people cannot complain about with this film, is the casting and the dialog, everything was pulled off extremely well. Mangold did a great job with making it feel like a classic western also, just with the tight gun fight scenes and really making you feel like you were in Texas at that time.

My biggest gripe has to be the ending of this film, to me Russell Crowe's character Ben seemed WAY too reluctant to go along with Dan (Christian Bale) to the train to Yuma. Even though at the end we do see Ben calling his horse and revealing that he has already escaped twice from Yuma. I mean it fit the movie, but to me personally, i just was not feeling it.

The highlight of this film was Ben Foresters performance in this movie, aside from seeing a great western movie again, he fucking nailed it. Hands down, a great job from him. So if you are looking for a good western film, look no further, i can see this movie being an instant classic like Tombstone, The Unforgiven and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I know i may be missing some films but i have not dug too deep in the genre but this film really makes me want to and also check out the original 3:10 To Yuma.

8/10