to Richard Widmark. It never hit me until this film.

I enjoyed it although there were too many conveniences for the sake of plot and the third act is a mess

but up until that point it's fucking fun and Mortensen shows once again why he is one of the best doing it these days. Vincent Cassel shows he's still french anyway you cut it and Armin Muehler-Stahl is fantastic. Naomi Watts is good, if serviceable.

This and 3:10 to Yuma work well as fun nights at the movies solid genre fare. And considering how long we've gone w/o consistently good genre movies it is a nice relief