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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 8437
Released: January 8, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Description of 3:10 to Yuma (Full Screen Edition):
Here's hoping James Mangold's big, raucous, and ultrabloody remake of 3:10 to Yuma leads some moviegoers to check out Delmer Daves's beautifully lean, half-century-old original. That classic Western spun a tale of captured outlaw Ben Wade (Glenn Ford)--deadly but disarmingly affable--and the small-time rancher and family man, Dan Evans (Van Heflin), desperate enough to accept the job of helping escort the badman to Yuma prison. Wade, knowing that his gang will be along at any moment to spring him, works at persuading the ultimately lone deputy to accept a bribe, turn his back on "duty," and go home safe and rich to his family. That the outlaw has come to admire his captor intriguingly complicates the suspense. All of the above applies in the new 3:10, but it takes a lot more huffing and puffing to get Wade (Russell Crowe this time) and Evans (Christian Bale) into position for the showdown. Mostly, more is less. To Mangold's credit, his movie doesn't traffic in facile irony or postmodern detachment; it aims to be a straight-up Western and deliver the excitement and charisma the genre's fans are starved for. But recognizing that contemporary viewers might be out of touch with the bedrock simplicity and strength of the genre--not to mention its code of honor--Mangold has supplied both Evans and Wade with a plethora of backstory and "motivations." At the overblown action climax, the crossfire of personal agendas is almost as frenetic as the copious gunplay. (By that point the movie has killed more people than the Lincoln County War.) Best thing about the remake is Russell Crowe's Ben Wade, a Scripture-quoting career villain with an artist's eye and a curiously principled sense of whom and when to murder. As his second-in-command, Ben Foster fairly pirouettes at every opportunity to commit mayhem, and Peter Fonda contributes a fierce portrait of an old Wade adversary turned bounty hunter for the Pinkerton detective agency. --Richard T. Jameson
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3:10 to Yuma (Full Screen Edition) Reviews:
Very solid Western with Crowe leading the way 
2009-12-09 - I love old Westerns but for some reason have yet to see the original of this. I sure will, as this was a good movie.
It didn't transport me like the real classics, but is nonetheless a solid piece of western craftsmanship, with a few loose ends. The final chase scene is rather overdone and almost slapstick, and the ending rather contrived, but Crowe makes it all work. Bale is as usual taciturn and righteous, and his sons are both believable. Fonda is also excellent; his scenes with Crowe are the highlights.
All in all, very watchable, and worth the time for any fans of the genre or the actors. And it looks very fine in blu-ray; I'd sure love to see some of Ford and Capra's work in this kind of definition.
3:10 to Yuma
2009-11-22 - 3:10 to Yuma (Widescreen Edition) new in box, played like it should have. Was a good movie, but didn't like the ending. Shippiing was great as usual.,
Great western
2009-10-15 - Let me begin this review by stating that I have never seen the original 3:10 to Yuma, and that I am not a fan of Western movies. Having said that, I liked this movie, and thought it was one of the best movies of the year. Starring two great actors, and a host of smaller-name actors and actresses, this movie is part action, part drama, with a little bit of comedy and romance thrown in. The gun fight scenes are great, and very realistic. The storyline itself is very good with original characters. Even the stagecoach robbery scene was original. All in all, a great movie.
One Of The 2 Best Westerns I've Ever Seen 
2009-10-09 - Definately one of the two best westerns I've ever seen - along with Dances with Wolves - and a movie that prompted me to start seeking out more from the genre, 3:10 To Yuma takes the rugged beauty of the American west and infuses it with a multi-layered story packed with riveting action, intense drama, and award-worthy performances.
Life on the frontier is difficult and sparse for the Evans family. The father, Dan (Christian Bale) is trying to hold things together on a family farm that's being squeezed out by a powerful land baron who's not only dammed the small river the farm depended on for irrigation, but started hiring local thugs to itimidate the Evans family and carry out acts of vandalism and arson - aimed not only at terrorizing the clan, but at making it impossible for Evans to make enough money to pay down his debt and keep the land from being seized. Dan Evans is basically alone against a very powerful group of ruthless enemies, unable to stand up to them without putting his family's life in jeopardy and with no one to call on for the support he'd need in order to fight back. His oldest son thinks him a coward for not doing more than he is, and Dan, full of self-doubt, is also worried that he's losing the respect of the rest of his family at the same time that he seems to be slowly losing their home and livlihood. On the exact opposite end of the spectrum we have outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe), whose gang of stagecoach thieves has been terrorizing the region. When the law finally succeeds in apprehending Wade, Evans - by sheer chance - ends up playing a role in his capture. Wade still has to be taken across some distance of wild territory to Yuma, where he'll be put on a train and shipped back east to stand trial. Being part of the band that delivers Wade to Yuma isn't a job that has many people clamoring for the chance to climb onboard, as the rest of his gang is still on the loose and will undoubtedly attempt to rescue their leader and kill his captors. For $200 - enough to pay off what his land has owing on it, Evans agrees to take part in the escort.
A very character-driven movie, the two leads are both fascinating, and the hero-villain interplay between Christian Bale and Russel Crowe is among the best in moviedom. Bale's Evans character is willing to do almost anything, take on almost any danger, not just for the physical cash that'll enable him to keep the family farm going, but to prove to people - especially his oldest son, or, perhaps especially to himself - that he isn't a failure or a coward. After years of having no feasible chance of bettering his family's lot, he seizes at this one chance for redemption and doesn't let go, even when it begins to look even more suicidal than taking on the large crew of local thugs back home would have been. In an interesting twist, one of those very thugs is also among the small crew paid to escort Wade to Yuma. Also, unexpectedly, joining the party is Evans's oldest son, who follows along behind them and, by the time he's discovered, can't be sent back home for fear of sending him right into Wade's pursuing gang. Russel Crowe's character of Wade is harder to analyze in terms of motivation, but immensely fascinating in trying to. On the surface he seems to be an unmitigated killer with no values, rules, or code of honor, but as events play out it becomes clear that's not the whole story - it's just hard to tell what the whole story is. As the viewer tries to crack what exactly determines Wade's at-times contradictory actions and behavior, Wade himself seems intrigued by Evans's conduct, who's increasingly willing to go to extraordinary lengths but at the same time unwilling to cross certain moral lines for any reason. It's as if Wade has developed, in his own mind, a sense of what should and shouldn't be in the world, of right and wrong, but has long since decided that any such notions are irrelevant and inapplicable in the real world. But now he's observing somebody who seems to be making an attempt at actually putting such ideals into practice, despite the world's best efforts to show them as ultimately futile.
The dramatic and dangerous journey to Yuma culminates in an escalation of stakes and a tremendous showdown. Evans and Wade have both reached pivotal points, and their performers, Bale and Crowe, have both established their roles as the stuff of legend. All supporting performances are dead-on, and the overall production values exceptional. One of the best movies of 2007, and a must-see whether you're a longtime western fan or have previously seen few or any. 10/10
3;10 to yuma
2009-10-08 - The movie showed up in very good time and the movie was excellant, thank you Grant
