Appaloosa 2008 123movies

Watch: Appaloosa 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – 1882, New Mexico Territory. Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) are itinerant lawmen, hired by desperate towns as Marshal and Deputy, respectively. The city fathers of Appaloosa hire them after Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons), a newly-arrived rancher with money and a gang of thugs, disrupts commerce and kills three local lawmen. Cole and Hitch contrive to arrest Bragg and bring him to trial, but hanging him proves to be difficult. Meanwhile, a widow has arrived in town, Allison French (Renée Zellweger), pretty, refined, and good-natured. Virgil falls hard, and it seems mutual, but there may be more to Allison than meets the eye. Can friendship and skill with a gun overcome a pernicious villain and green-eyed jealousy?.
Plot: Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
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Ratings:

	6.7/10 Votes: 61,843
	76% | RottenTomatoes
	64/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 833 Popularity: 16.646 | TMDB

Reviews:

An OK western but a great character study
Appaloosa as a western is okay, as a movie its okay, but as a character study it’s great. Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen are two of the most underrated actors (not stars) in Hollywood. Viggo should have had two or three Oscars by now. His rendition of Everett Hitch made the whole movie more than worthwhile. He’s a man of little words but great thought. He also an observant man, of things and people. He’s loyal but with practicality. He knows what the two of them do and why they do it and he know enough about Virgil not to step on his toes. But he also knows when to say what he as to say and leave it at that. I’m never that impressed by Renee Zellweger but in this movie she sort of fit in. 7/10

Fatal love
While not my favourite genre, there is a lot of appreciation for the western genre, old and new (especially old), and there are a lot of classics. ‘Appaloosa’ looked great from the trailer, the concept for the story was interesting and from the few clips seen from it by chance. The positive reviews drew me in as did the immensely talented actors in the cast, especially like Viggo Mortensen and Jeremy Irons.

‘Appaloosa’ is not quite one of the classics of the western genre, but it is among the better examples of films seen recently that did not waste their vast potential (great news for me, having seen a lot of potential wastes recently and with increasing frustration). And for me one of the better-faring westerns in recent years, somewhat of a little gem when looking past the couple of flaws it has. It may sound like standard western territory from reading any plot summaries but it does do things differently in ways not predicted.

There is not much wrong with ‘Appaloosa’, but one, and the bigger one, of only two major debits is Renee Zellwegger. She was not the first choice for Allie and it shows, she’s does not gel with the setting (very anachronistically modern) and is completely out of her depth in a very meaty role, more depth than the usual romantic love threat in westerns, that needed a stronger presence than the one Zellwegger gave.

Felt very little chemistry between her and Ed Harris, or at least not an easy-going or loving one. Actually wondered what people saw in her. Bragg’s “pardon” seemed rushed too.

However, ‘Appaloosa’ is shot and edited with the right amount of old-fashioned elegance and grit. The production design is authentic to its period and is handsome while looking dangerous enough too. The low-key lighting is always striking. The music score matches the film’s subtle tone expertly, not once being too loud, over-used or over-emphasising. Harris does a great job directing, the old-fashioned and nostalgic approach appreciated and working beautifully, and there is no signs here of biting off more than he can chew. Like others have said he shows a love for the western genre and understands it.

Script is both intelligent and down to earth, with the voice over not over-explaining. The story is deliberate and subtle, admittedly dragging at times, shining in the quirky and understated chemistry between Harris and Mortensen and the action that makes one nostalgic for the older westerns. The ending satisfies and doesn’t feel too neat and tidy and while there are cliches certainly they don’t feel like tired ones. The characters are interesting and much more than they seem with a surprising amount of complexity, that’s including Bragg who’s more than irredeemably evil.

Zellwegger aside, the acting is very good with both Harris and particularly Mortensen being charismatic and understated leads and Irons being a dastardly yet never cartoonish villain. Great too in seeing Lance Henriksen not being restricted to bizarre roles in low-budget output.

All in all, very well done. 8/10

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 55 min (115 min)
Budget 20000000
Revenue 20211394
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
Director Ed Harris
Writer Robert Knott, Ed Harris, Robert B. Parker
Actors Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger
Country United States
Awards 4 wins
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo, C- and E-Series Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (also prints), EFILM Digital Laboratories, Hollywood (CA), USA (digital intermediate)
Film Length 3,182 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 500T 5218)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Panavision (anamorphic) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383)