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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: HD DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0085391137627 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen Item Dimensions: Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video MPN: 113762 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 26, 2008 Running Time: 160 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 2007 Editorial Review: Product Description: Everyone in 1880s America knows Jesse James. He?s the nation?s most notorious criminal hunted by the law in 10 states. He?s also the land?s greatest hero lauded as a Robin Hood by the public. Robert Ford? No one knows him. Not yet. But the ambitious 19-year-old aims to change that. He?ll befriend Jesse ride with his gang. And if that doesn?t bring Ford fame he?ll find a deadlier way. Friendship becomes rivalry and the quest for fame becomes obsession in this virile epic produced in part by Ridley Scott and featuring gripping portrayals by Brad Pitt (winner of the Venice Film Festival Best Actor Award) as Jesse and Casey Affleck as the youth drawn closer to his goal?and farther from his own humanity.Running Time: 160 min.Format: DVD HD Genre: WESTERN/COWBOYS UPC: 085391137627 Manufacturer No: 113762 Amazon.com: Of all the movies made about or glancingly involving the 19th-century outlaw Jesse Woodson James, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is the most reflective, most ambitious, most intricately fascinating, and indisputably most beautiful. Based on the novel of the same name by Ron Hansen, it picks up James late in his career, a few hours before his final train robbery, then covers the slow catastrophe of the gang's breakup over the next seven months even as the boss himself settles into an approximation of genteel retirement. But in another sense all of the movie is later than that. The very title assumes the audience's familiarity with James as a figure out of history and legend, and our awareness that he was--will be--murdered in his parlor one quiet afternoon by a backshooting crony. The film--only the second to be made by New Zealand-born writer-director Andrew Dominik--reminds us that Dominik's debut film, Chopper (2000), was the cunningly off-kilter portrait of another real-life criminal psychopath who became a kind of rock star to his society. The Jesse James of this telling is no Robin Hood robbing the rich to give to the poor, and that train robbery we witness is punctuated by acts of gratuitous brutality, not gallantry. Nineteen-year-old Bob Ford (Casey Affleck) seeks to join the James gang out of hero worship stoked by the dime novels he secretes under his bed, but his glam hero (Brad Pitt) is a monster who takes private glee in infecting his accomplices with his own paranoia, then murdering them for it. In the careful orchestration of James's final moments, there's even a hint that he takes satisfaction in his own demise. Affleck and Pitt (who co-produced with Ridley Scott, among others) are mesmerizing in the title roles, but the movie is enriched by an exceptional supporting cast: Sam Shepard as Jesse's older, more stable brother Frank; Sam Rockwell as Bob Ford's own brother Charlie, whose post-assassination descent into madness is astonishing to behold; Paul Schneider, Garret Dillahunt, and Jeremy Renner as three variously doomed gang members; and Mary-Louise Parker, who as Jesse's wife Zee has few lines yet manages with looks and body language to invoke a wellnigh-novelistic backstory for herself. There are also electrifying cameos by James Carville, doing solid actorly work as the governor of Missouri; Ted Levine, as a lawman of antic spirit; and Nick Cave, composer of the film's score (with Warren Ellis) and screenwriter of the Aussie "Western" The Proposition, suddenly towering over a late scene to perform the folk song that set the terms for the book and movie's title. Still, the real costar is Roger Deakins, probably the finest cinematographer at work today. The landscapes of the movie (mostly in Alberta and Manitoba) will linger in the memory as long as the distinctive faces, and we seem to feel the sting of its snows on our cheeks. Interior scenes are equally persuasive. Few Westerns have conveyed so tangibly the bleakness and austerity of the spaces people of the frontier called home, and sought in vain to warm with human spirit. --Richard T. Jameson Average Rating:
 Rating:  - ExcellentI couldn't wait to see this movie, and I wasn't disappointed. Such a perfect balance between all the elements that make a great movie: amazing cinematography, impeccable pacing, fascinating performances, pitch-perfect writing. Rating:  - Beautiful film to watch; Way too longI enjoyed watching the acting tour de force between Mr. Pitt and Mr. Affleck, but it's Sam Rockwell who deserves the accolades. Brilliant photography and direction, and a very carefully written script can't change the fact that at, almost 3 hours, it wasn't as exciting as I'd hoped it would be. Certainly, it's a good lesson about the "real" Jesse James (nasty guy) and Robert Ford (wannabe idiot). I wasn't revved by the narrative, but it was certainly a complete narative and beautifully acted. Rating: - Movie, of course. Art, most defintetly!This movie is an art film. Watch closely and perhaps you can pick-up on the film's expression. You have to look beyond, and deeper, than the action, the story, the man, Jesse James, and the cowboy theme. This movie expresses the grand writing style of Ron Hansen's novel, of the same title, and the direction of Andrew Dominik. Spend time and allow this film to communicate to you its finer qualities. Rating:  - Jesse James....Hero? Robin Hood? Since when does the bad guy become something we should honor??? While showing that this man is a thief, the moderator describes Jesse James as a really nice guy but pushed into a life of crime. What about the people he stole from or killed? Sorry, if someone shot him in the back or shot him in the front I could care less just so long as he was taken out of this society! Brad Pitt's acting was as usual....slow and not a whole lot of dialog. The movie itself is slow, ... Read More Rating: - Brad Pitt's ultimate masterpieceHello there, Dear mr. Pitt, The Best Brad Pitt Movie Ever. If you ever get a chance to see my review , this is in my honest opinion your best film. I think this film is so good that it has changed everything and that like E = MC2 , most people aren't realizing the change that's taking place in Hollywood filmmaking as a result of making movies like this and There Will Be Blood. I have watched one Jesse James movie before and no matter who may or may ... Read More |
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