Stunning visuals award-worthy performances and a script that takes
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Stunning visuals, award-worthy performances, and a script that takes incredibly rewarding risks, Jesse James is a masterpiece and one of the best films of the year. The Assassination of Jesse James is less of a Western than a mid-Western, which refers both to the film’s urban Missouri center of gravity and its pivoting position between horse opera and backstage intrigue.
Of all the many films about Jesse James, Andrew Dominik’s epic Assassination of Jesse James HD DVD may not end up ranking as the most popular or the best film on the subject but it will certainly, flaws and all, be regarded as the most intriguing and ambitious take on the man and his myth.