Kailansorac
Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
Payno
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Edwin
The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
FightingWesterner
The umpteenth retelling of the James gang story, Frank And Jesse is loaded with historical inaccuracies and blatant audience manipulation, but as a good old southern boy who still hasn't made peace with the Union, I'm suspending my BS detector and declaring this an awesome movie and one of the best westerns of the nineties!This is full of bloody shootouts and action packed escapes. Also, the period detail is much better than later independently produced westerns. My only problem is that all the best scenes are early on in the film and the rest of it suffers by comparison.Rob Lowe is probably the the last person I would have expected to star as Jesse James and I must admit I was a bit skeptical of him (translation: too pretty) but he did a good job portraying Jesse as an innocent youth pushed by the carpetbaggers and unforgiving northerners into becoming an avenger of southern pride and human dignity (the afore mentioned audience manipulation) before causing his own downfall through arrogance and carelessness.As Frank James, Bill Paxton gives an excellent performance that left me wondering why he hasn't been in more westerns.William Atherton and Luke Askew, as the villains, also stand out in this well cast movie.
Jay Harris
Over the years there have been many films depicting the lives & events of the James Gang. A few of them were more or less factual, this version is more fiction than fact. Rob Lowe & Bill Paxton are the James boys.Of course IMHO the best Jesse & Frank were Tyrone Power & Henry Fonda, Rob & Bill do not come close..The most glaring and obvious error was this,. IT WAS BOB FORD not CHARLIE FORD that shot Jesse in the back at end of film.There are other errors as well, which will not be detailed.Alexis Arquette portrays Charlie Ford, He does try I will say that,William Atherton gives the best performance as the detective Alan Pinkertion, he is a fine actor to boot & here he does a first class job. This may have been a better film if the acting by the leads was better. The production credits were OK.ratings **1/2 out of 4---67 points out of 100 IMDb 5 out of 10NOTE on points the 67 grad is just 3 points above a ** rating
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But other than getting the names correct this movie totally ignore history. The Northfield portion was ridicules. They didn't plan to be in Northfield, it was a backup bank. The Pinkerton's weren't there. Heck the fact is Jesse and Frank probably weren't even there. It shows Cole riding off after shooting his brother. He was shot over 50 times and Northfield, and 90 times in his life. He then went to prison and was released in the early 1900's He died of old age. Shot 90 time and lived. What an amazing man. The real criminals of the ear was the railroads. The killed and stole from the average folks. That is why Jesse and Frank were heroes.
nkoen2
When the war was over the Confederates (Rebels) did not get much. They were forced to sell their farms to the railroad even if they did not fight in the war. There is a question that has plagued my mind for some time. If I lived back then and some one blew up my house and killed my little brother and father what would I do? I would probably do the same thing, and pick up arms against the people who did it. The movie "Frank and Jesse" depicts the life of the gang and family around them. The reasons why they did what they did and the truth to what had happened Alan Pinkerton (William Atherton) is portrayed as someone who did not care what happened to others and that was how he is in real life. He spent most of his life trying to catch some one who he could not catch. Jesse James (Rob Lowe)was portrayed as always seen in real life and legend never to turn back on what he believed no matter how bad it looked. Frank James (Bill Paxton) was seen the same way as well as the others: Cole Younger(Randy Travis) Bob Younger (Todd Field), Clell Miller(John Pyper-Ferguson), and Archie Clements(Nick Sadler). The only complaint that I have about this movie is the film location. It was filmed in Arkansas and not Missouri but it sure looked like Missouri to me till I found out where it was filmed. But the pictures that were shown in the movie were realistic which made it seems that The James Younger Gang was still alive and well today.
