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It’s time! 3:10 …!

Actually, I decided last week to subscribe to NetFlix and this is my first choice of a movie. I’ll fill you in shortly on my opinion of NetFlix, how it works and how to make the most of your membership there. But in the meantime, let me tell you a little about this movie: 3:10 To Yuma! (Also on Bluray)

Russell Crowe, of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, is Ben Wade, an outlaw who has been captured after robbing a stagecoach. Christian Bale (better known as the new Batman) is the rancher who has agreed to help the Pinkerton’s detective take Ben to the 3:10 train to Yuma. That’s the basis of the story, without giving away too much (I hate it when people do that, don’t you?).

As movies go, this one is great. I rank it in the definitely watch again category. The props, costumes, and environments looked so authentic. At times it looked like I was looking at some pictures out of the old west. Amazing. The way the actors handled the horses and the guns made me believe that this was stuff they’d done their entire life. Very satisfying.

I put out of my mind that this was a remake (generally I don’t care much for remakes) but as I watched the movie it didn’t make any difference … I enjoyed it. All of it.

Even if you don’t enjoy westerns I would recommend that you watch this film. You’ll see the heart of this movie about someone trying to do the right and decent thing, when everyone else around him has persuasive arguments why he should take the easy way out.

One of the gems of the movie I felt was the character who played Charlie Prince - Ben Parker. (Yeah, sounds like Spider Man doesn’t it?). He’s a Six Feet Under guy. He made me feel that he was pure evil. I know he’s probably not, but the cold-heartedness that oozed out of his screen presence was amazing. And the one character who didn’t really seem to fit, at least for me, was Alan Tudyk as Doc Potter. Don’t know why, but I keep seeing him as the zany pilot from Firefly. A different actor would of probably been better. Otherwise, no complaints! Great flick!

“And you just remember that your old man walked Ben Wade to that station when nobody else would.”