Genre: Drama, Western, Buddies, Murder, Thieves, Hostage, Doctor, Love, Outlaws
Tagline: No place to run. No reason to hide.
Plot: Charley Waite (KEVIN COSTNER), Boss Spearman (Oscar® winner ROBERT DUVALL), “Button” (DIEGO LUNA) and Mose Harrison (ABRAHAM BENRUBI), are all men trying to escape their pasts— and the one place where a man can be free is on the open range, driving cattle in a land where nature makes the only laws. Bound to each other by the “Code of the West”—standing up for what’s right, showing loyalty to those closest to you—the cowboys try to avoid violence. But one frontier town that rules through fear and tyranny changes their lives and forces them into action. Amidst this turmoil, life suddenly takes an unexpected turn for loner Charley when he meets the spirited Sue Barlow (Oscar® nominee ANNETTE BENING), a woman who embraces both his heart and his soul. As these courageous men prepare for the decisive battle that looms, they are also forced to confront and conquer their own internal
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 With all the best intentions on making an old-fashioned Western, Open Range just can't make it past its utterly pathetic dialogue and overdone plot. John Wayne is turning over in his grave.  --Kit Bowen (Hollywood.com)
''Open Range'' wants its notions of good and evil to have a primal, mythic force, but instead it feels both puffed up and simplistic.--A.O. Scott (The New York Times)
Whatever his faults as a filmmaker may be, Kevin Costner certainly understands the Western. Although Open Range is not on the same level as Dances with Wolves, it's a respectable effort that is only slightly marred by the unnecessarily protracted denouement. This is a great two-hour motion picture. Unfortunately, it runs 20 minutes longer than that.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Flawed and talky, sinuous and violent, funny and warm, the movie does its main thing, its raison d'etre, brilliantly: It tells you how the West was won.--Stephen Hunter (Washington Post)
"Open Range" is the kind of movie that Costner knows how to make, whether he's acting in it or directing. It's about the big things and the small details, a movie about America as a nation but also the specific habits and behavior of individuals.--Desson Howe (Washington Post)
"Open Range" does prattle on a bit too long, taking a few too many bows after that amazing climactic set piece. But it's a terrific, mature departure for Costner as a filmmaker, and ranks among his very best work.--Jeffrey M. Anderson (San Francisco Examiner)
"Open Range" is not in the same league with "Dances," but this compelling drama stands on its own as one of the best films of the summer.--Paul Clinton (CNN Showbiz)
Director Kevin Costner does actor Kevin Costner a big favor in "Open Range" - he makes him a man of few words.--Jack Mathews (New York Daily News)
Robert Duvall brings an authenticity to his performances that puts any movie he appears in ahead of the game from the start. 76/100--Brian Webster (Apollo Guide)
Costner’s epic, as director, is one to behold, not for its 24th hour sentimental about-face, but for the existential knack it has for the pacific, the stately and the quiet. 80/100--Jon Lap (Apollo Guide)
Those who may be tempted to skip the film because of The Postman would do well to reconsider, as this is one of the most purely entertaining movies to come around in a while.  --David Nusair (Reel Film Reviews)
Pretension out guns true grit in this Western morality tale.-- (Hollywod Reporter)
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Robert Duvall
The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Apocalypse Now |
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 | Michael Gambon
Sleepy Hollow, The Insider, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou |
 | Michael Jeter
The Green Mile, Jurassic Park III, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
 | Diego Luna
The Terminal, And Your Mother Too, Frida |
 | James Russo
The Ninth Gate, Donnie Brasco, Beverly Hills Cop | |
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| Open Range copies the rain and flood of the Clint Eastwood classic but can't match it for dark-night-of-the-soul brilliance -- not with dogs getting shot, Duvall speechifyin' about freedom in this country and Costner talking mush about kisses. -- (Rolling Stone)
Watch Kevin Costner for five minutes in "Open Range," and it becomes obvious: This is an actor in the grip of an idea -- an idea about himself.--Mick LaSalle (San Francisco Chronicle)
Slowed down somewhat by a shoehorned-in love story, it's overlong and unoriginal but never less than entertaining - topped by a terrific gunfight.  --Nev Pierce (BBC Films)
Enjoyable, well directed traditional western with a superb performance by Robert Duvall and an impressive final shoot-out.  --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
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