3:10 to Yuma
Time waits for one man.
When outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) is captured, destitute rancher Dan Evans (Christian Bale) is paid to join the group of men set to bring him to a train bound for Yuma prison. Director James Mangold’s remake of the 1957 western classic doesn’t really do anything original that warrants a new version, but it is nevertheless very well made. Mr. Crowe is excellent as the type of movie criminal one can’t help but respect even though he’s a ruthless killer; Mr. Bale matches him as the war veteran who proves himself to his son. Marco Beltrami’s score sets the mood for this classically produced (but bloody and a tad overlong) western, nicely shot in New Mexico.
2007-U.S. 120 min. Color. Widescreen. Produced by Cathy Konrad. Directed by James Mangold. Music: Marco Beltrami. Cast: Russell Crowe (Ben Wade), Christian Bale (Dan Evans), Peter Fonda (Byron McElroy), Logan Lerman, Dallas Roberts, Ben Foster… Luke Wilson.
► Cathy Konrad: “The challenge was how can we drag out this cat and mouse between [Wade and Evans] and really ratchet up the tension and keep their stories evolving with clearly some additional physical action along the way for our modern appetite and such. And then, how do we strengthen the relationships? What can we add that was already planted as a seed in the original? Dan’s struggle with his family, the way that his sons might view him, the way that his wife viewed him, the subtext that really wasn’t spoken in the original but I think was plainly there in that one scene which is a wife going, ‘What are we doing?’ and you could kind of see in Alice this questioning of her husband. And we took that idea and planted it with the son because I think that there’s something incredible to study in fathers and sons and how things get passed along and what that does to a man.” (Interview on Movies Online)
Trivia: At one point, Tom Cruise and Eric Bana were allegedly considered for the leads.
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