Tockinit not horrible nor great

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Mike Lengel Robert Ford flutters passionately and covetously around late 19th century outlaw and reserved hero of the Southern cause, Jesse James, in this visually breathtaking and emotionally unnerving film. Youngest of his brothers and leaden with insecurity, Bob fancies himself unwavering protege of a man whose chivalrous and mysterious reputation masks a deeper unease with humanity. The two weave in and out of contact over robbery and family feud, illuminating Bob's lust and Jesse's growing anxiety through gang rumor and increasingly awkward conversation, funneling into melancholy self-destruction. Bob's child-like infatuation for Jesse is teased and threatened by kin and gang member as the posse gallop back and forth across the snow-drifted Midwest, raiding to reestablish lost pride. His eyes grow shrill and frosty as a tattered self-esteem is nudged to the surface, raising the hair and corroding the nerves of his hero, who starts to retreat into a shell of paranoia. Bob and Jesse's emotional spiral is foreshadowed in cigar-lit, rocking-chair conversation and family get togethers with tense and glaring body language. Words exchanged dance around the clashing self-images of both men, growing a guardedness that ironically binds Bob tighter to Jesse's boot and shackles Jesse from shedding his stalker. As Bob's declining self-esteem unveils murderous intentions, Jesse confesses his reactive wretch and desperation in one of the films most gorgeous scenes, kneeling on a frozen lake and muttering under frosty breath (more to himself than Charley Ford) with pines and snow-capped mountains towering behind. Other characters fade from the drama, leaving Bob and his older brother Charley increasingly alone with Jesse, who begins to accept death, resisting perhaps only to bait the Fords to extinguish his inescapable pain. The three meet catharsis, accompanied by a beautifully depressing ballad, in a claustrophobic room where one last chance for transparency is forsaken as Jesse surrenders his life in solemn confidence and Bob coldly draws his gun, sure of reviving his self-esteem. The film progresses to reveal a truth, seeping from Jesse's formerly shy admirers, of equal sadness for his death and anger for his killer. To his contempt, Bob absorbs the cowardly self-image that Jesse kept so well hidden until death, along with the burden of barroom stares and stifling back luck, when his own killer raises a shotgun barrel. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a delicately woven fabric of superb acting, stunning cinematography, and sweet melancholic music. The film glitters with timeless emotion and humanity to entertain as well as give us a finer look into ourselves.

merelyaninnuendo The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert FordThere are few high pitched dramatic sequences; especially the dinner table conversation, that easily allows you to cringe yourself on the seat for its hollow brutality and sheer horror depiction by the actors needs no definition on terms of craft and performance. The screen writer and director, Andrew Dominik is in his A game where he bring out his big guns sooner than expected and hits hard and fast which later turns out to be a bad influence in it. Casey Affleck and Brad Pitt; on parallel roles, are giving competition to each other and are supported with a great cast like Jeremy Renner and Sam Rockwell. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford is a character driven feature that feeds on emotional impact on character development but unfortunately chews it off way too much to be intriguing enough to invest in it.

clive-13 Wow! This is by far the most incredibly boring film I think I have ever seen. Brad Pitt should really be ashamed of TRYING to portray Jessie James. My God, Pitt shows almost NO emotion of any kind through out 2 hours and 40 minutes of the worst kind of torture......bad acting, stupid voice over, terrible plot lines and equally pathetic supporting actors. What a total wast of time. Stay away at all costs. Probably the very worst aspect of the overly long Hollywood mistake was the horrible voice over of Robert Ford. I did not fully understand what he was trying to do with the film. What ever he was trying to do didn't work at all. It seemed the only reason for them extreme length of the bizarre western was to get all of the voice over into the film. I say that Pitt playing Jesse should have been killed off in the first 10 minutes of this "Titanic"of a film. I can only give this film a 1 out of 10.

grantss The story of notorious outlaw Jesse James, concentrating on the last seven months of his life. Looks at how he is befriended by Robert Ford and how this will lead to his death.Good acting and decent script but very slow moving, resulting in a 2 hr 40 min movie. Could have been an hour shorter and still achieved the same result. The story meandered and digressed a lot in the middle section, spending much time on subplots which didn't have much bearing on the main story. Thought that the story of Robert Ford's post-assassination life could have been expanded more, though. The little post-assassination story that was shown, saved the movie, I feel.