3:10 to Yuma (2007): Time Waits For One Man

Genre: Drama, Western, Remake

Release Date: September 7th, 2007
MPAA Rating: R for violence and some language
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Ben Foster

I'm not a fan of cowboy movies (actually I don't know what exactly the kind of movie I like).
I'm not an expert movie-reviewer too. Even I'm still too far from a newbie.
But this is one of my favourite movies, so I'll try.

This is a remake of 1957 movie, when it was still black and white. Glenn Ford played Ben Wade, Van Heflin was Dan Evans.

In this movie, a rancher, Dan Evans (Christian Bale) took a 200-dollars-task to escort a bandit, Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) from Bisbee to Yuma by train. In Yuma, this dangerous man would be taken to the court and might be hanged to death.

Dan Evans was a poor rancher. He lost a leg in the Civil War. He badly needed that money to make a better living. Besides, he have to save his face in front of his wife, Alice (Gretchen Mol) and his oldest son, William (Logan Lerman) because often William didn't believe his dad to run the family and so did Alice.

Of course many hazardous events happened. A group of Indians living in the middle of the way there and the threatening gang of Ben Wade, especially Charlie Prince (Ben Foster) was chasing them behind. One by one the party lost its member and only Dan Evans left. The unbelievable confessions between Wade and Evans made everything twisted.

I never watched the original one but Russell Crowe did a good job here. His cruelty was bold, and his words that consists of proverbs of the Bible made his character even interesting. Christian Bale as my favourite actor played a family man once again and I LOVE IT. I love his expressions as a dad. Maybe it looked quite odd when a one-legged man run like a usual healthy adult. Maybe he didn't show the abilities a real hawk-eyed shooter has like Crowe did. But he played well to compeer such a Academy Award winner like Crowe.

Logan Lerman's character was interesting too. Maybe William was very annoying at the first time, but his bravery 'saves his face'. As a rebellious and inexperienced teenager, he didn't trouble the party. I like Lerman's job too.

If you like western movies, such as Unforgiven (1992), watch it. I gave quite-subjective eight point five stars out of ten for this movie. It's worth to watch.

SPOILER ALERT

I hate it when I saw Dan Evans died. T_T But finally there, William could convince himself that his dad was a responsible man. He's a man of his word.

Thanks to the Internet Movie Database for the technical details and the important quotes I've forgot.