A remake of the 1957 black-and-white film that was popular with audiences and critics alike, this newer, more modern version of 3:10 to Yuma, stays mostly true to the characters and plot of the original film but doesn’t necessarily improve on it either.
Russell Crowe and Christian Bale lead the well placed cast. Both are good, talented actors. Crowe is the biggest bad guy of the west, Ben Wade, and Bale is the dad of a family in a struggling farm. Eventually Wade gets captured, and to pay off the big debt on his farm, Bale volunteers to escort him to the 3:10 train to Yuma. But Wade’s outlaw gang will stop at nothing to get Wade back, and will kill everyone who gets in their way in the process.
The movie is rightly casted and all of the actors do very great jobs, and they make up for the so-so script writing. 3:10 to Yuma is very exciting from beginning to finish, but it also kills off literally most of the major and minor characters. A character is just introduced when he suddenly gets gunned down. I’ll bet you that someone gets killed or wounded, whether it’s by a gun, knife or dynamite in almost every scene.
This remake received critical praise and was a moderate success at the box-office. It served as a tense, action-filled, entertaining, mature western. Even so, this can’t completely save it from the been there western it is.
Grade: B-
This movie deserves a sold B, maybe even a B+, not a B- The story is good, un-predictable, and keeps the viewer engaged during the whole movie. This movie is actually better then the original - which is normally difficult to pull off. The acting is also good.
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