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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Okay, it's rated "R" for a reason. It's violent and bloody and cruel, with dreadful deaths and incredible random senseless cruelty.I get that. It's "real life." But there is so *much* of this nonstop cruelty and violence and just stupid people being cruel and awful and violent.What a dreadful waste of talented actors. We expected better of Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson, among others. And we expected more of a movie that was filmed in such spectacular natural beauty.Alas, it was not to be. We watched for about 15 minutes and then decided we'd had enough of the general stupid violence. The movie went to the trash.

Allegorical Western, its Message Siding with a Greuling Chase among the Earth's rugged Natural Environment from the Top to the Bottom, or as the Film would more than Metaphorically Display, from Heaven to Hell, with the "Fallen Angels".The First Two Acts are Typical of Old Time in the Genre, Featuring Closed Mouth Types Speaking in Short Cynical Sentences. Showing the kind of Men who Could Survive on God's Not So Green Earth. There's the Snow and the Desert, Two Extremities on Terra-Ferma that are Not Inhabitable for the Weak and the Unprepared.Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson are the Fallen One's and the Film is Ambiguous about that for quite a While, but in the End there are No Easy Answers, No Saints, just Sinners. As the Film Fades Out it is as Simple as "Vengeance is Mine Sayeth the Lord".Reluctantly Admitting the Gorgeous Cinematography and Fine Acting, some have taken Quite an Offense that the Mystical Intruding is too Heavy Handed, going Against the Classic Western Tradition.The Modern and Postmodern Western has Evolved with the Likes of Mann, Boetticher, Leone, and Peckinpah. If You Prefer John Wayne, John Ford, Howard Hawks and the like, that's Fine. But, the Influences here are the aforementioned.

The whole angels thing, from the heaven of the peaks to the hell of the desert is not utter nonsense, but it's not representative of the movie. I would liken this movie to a bastard child of "The Sons of Katie Elder" and "Valhalla Rising". A wrong has been done, and vengeance is due. That's the premise. The real issue is GREY. A woman and two children have died under the authority of, but not because of, Gideon. Carver hunts Gideon as a result. The violence that follows is almost mandated by the nature and perspective of the characters. That's not an indictment, unless it's of the human condition. The GREY that enters into it is because of the human condition. Each character is human, and doesn't fit into the standard good / evil role. Reconciliation is possible, but not likely ( it's a western ). "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do " is integral to this movie, and all debts are paid, but not in the way one would expect. It's a precise, beautifully shot movie that neither gives, nor takes hope away. The ending feels balanced, if anticlimactic. I watched this movie straight, but I think that 3 shots of whiskey, or half a joint would give enough focus and engagement to put this movie on a lot of Favorites lists.

This movie was just horrible. A total waste of time.The start was pretty boring, just two guys chasing each other around in a snowy hillside and we didn't get any clue to WHY the actually were chasing each other. The explanation came at the end of the movie... How are we supposed to know who we should sympathize with when we know nothing about the characters! The rest of the movie didn't get any better either. A weird Indian man taking money to let people drink water, a weirder saleswoman selling some sort of cure in the middle of the desert. And the worst part of all: one of the guys lets his horse thirst to death and then guts the horse and hides inside him! I mean, come on! Is that supposed to be good western?! I thought cowboys loved their horses...The ending was weird, boring and just stupid. This movie gave me nothing, I would rather watch the grass grow than watch it again. I am really disappointed in Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson, I can't believe they agreed to play in this movie.And I don't understand why they called it a western movie. No gunfights, no action, no romance or friendship, nothing a good western movie should contain. I can not understand how this movie has 6,7 as rating on IMDb, I'm surely not gonna trust that rating system anymore.A little advise: don't waste your time on this movie! Especially not if you like western movies.