The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007) 8/10

Starring : Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell
Director : Andrew Dominik
Running Time : 160 mins

Jesse James (Pitt) is the biggest hero of 19 year old Robert Ford (Affleck), and Ford soon manages to get himself membership to Jesse’s criminal gang, but when he realises the size of the reward for killing James, Ford decides to make a name for himself by killing James and collecting the reward.

Despite being extremely slow paced and unnecessarily long, this is still an interesting movie which gives a very different account of the life of Jesse James from what we usually see in old Westerns. It’s sad that Robert Ford was thought of as a coward when he stopped a criminal from continuing his work, but this account gives a balanced account of what happened and leaves the audience to make their own judgement.

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