Synopsis
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
Votre Filmothèque
Cast
- Kevin CostnerCharley Waite
- Robert DuvallBoss Spearman
- Michael GambonDenton Baxter
- Michael JeterPercy
- Diego LunaButton
- James RussoSheriff Poole
- Abraham BenrubiMose
- Kim CoatesButler
- Annette BeningSue Barlow
- Dean McDermottDoc Barlow
Recommandations
- 90
Washington Post
There's a lot in this movie, simple, big, small and exciting. It's the year's first serious contender for big prizes. What's not to like about this picture? - 80
Washington Post
It's a fine, old-fashioned 2 1/4 hours at the Bijou. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
There's nothing corny, however, about the climactic shoot-out, which Costner has staged superbly as an extended logistical mini-war that surges and rifle-cracks with bloody abandon through what feels like every building in town. Call it dances with guns. - 63
USA Today
Compared with other films Costner has directed, Range isn't a folly like "The Postman," nor is it quite as over-elaborated as "Dances With Wolves." - 60
Chicago Reader
Storper is pretty good at playing with and against certain western cliches in his treatment of the good guys (including Annette Bening's character), but resorts to pure cliche when it comes to the villians (e.g., Gambon and James Russo). - 50
Premiere
A moderate success, if a bit clunky. Somewhere beneath the syrupy melodrama and the scenes that should have expired long ago, there is an intelligent, thoughtful western in waiting. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
In all, the film is a striking, if flawed, achievement by a talented actor who may become an important director if he sticks to the genre that suits him best. - 50
Rolling Stone
Open Range copies the rain and flood of the Clint Eastwood classic but can't match it for dark-night-of-the-soul brilliance.
