Yesterday I saw the last western movie that has come to us from Hollywood, The 3:10 train, remake of the 1957 film by Delmer Daves, which has in its cast two great stars such as Christian Bale y Russel Crowe And, I must say, that I am against the vast majority of the criticisms about the film that I have read on the net because it seemed to me a slow, boring and not at all credible film.
Summing up the plot: Dan Evans (Bale) is a rancher in debt who agrees to take Ben Wade (Crowe) (thief and murderer) to a town where there is a train bound for the Yuma jail that leaves at 3:10. Along the way, they will have to face various setbacks from Indian attacks on Crowe's gang.
To begin with my criticism, we are already in the XNUMXst century and I can not stand more than a man who has been shot and is half dead recovers easily once the bullet is extracted, there being no sequelae of his wound in the entire film. I say this because of the role played by Peter Fonda.
On the other hand, it is not very credible that one of the main characters, Christian Bale, who plays a poor rancher whose leg was amputated, from just above the ankle, due to a wound in the American Civil War, unfolds as if he had both legs and not a wooden one.
And, since I do not want to extend myself, the worst of all and least credible of the film is when at the end of the film Russell Crowe (the bad guy, the murderer) does nothing to escape and follows Bale around the town while they are shot for the Crowe gang and many other townspeople who want the reward. And, I am not talking about the end at all because it is the last straw. An impudence.
I don't keep getting hot. For me it was much better OpenRange (2003) by Kevin Costner even if other fellow bloggers think otherwise.