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The Hi-Lo Country 1998 123movies

The Hi-Lo Country 1998 123movies

A woman like Mona can drive men to extremes.Dec. 30, 1998114 Min.
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Watch: The Hi-Lo Country 1998 123movies, Full Movie Online – An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy are masters of the prairie, but ultimately face trickier terrain: the human heart..
Plot: An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy are masters of the prairie, but ultimately face trickier terrain: the human heart.
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6.1/10 Votes: 4,426
54% | RottenTomatoes
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N/A Votes: 72 Popularity: 6.785 | TMDB

Reviews:

There is a thin line between downbeat and flat.
The point of this exercise escapes me. Today, in 1999, there are probably two valid reasons for reviving a relic of a genre – to provide an old-fashioned, nostalgic, action-packed adventure, or to remould the Western in our age’s image, to try to see what the form can say about us, our ideologies, and, most importantly, our relation to history. This film does neither.

On the one hand, it has many of the virtues of the traditional Western – lovingly bleached landscapes; a pompous, overwrought score; cattle runs; male bonding. But it has neither a compelling narrative drive, charismatic characters, nor a mythic sensibility.

On the deconstructive side, it seems to want to critique the problematic values of the West. The maverick rebel versus corporate muscle is, as has been pointed out, a theme worthy of Peckinpah, but its treatment lacks his romantic passion, violent sympathy, or dynamic self-pity.

The hero, Big Boy, is, according to some, a subject of the film’s censure, but the only fault I can find in him is that he is probably impotent, and if that’s supposed to be an iconoclastic weakness, than the filmmakers are being rather macho. So he’s a bit wild and brutal; he’s also loyal, dignified and amusing, and Woody Harrelson invests him with much charm. The rest of the characters, especially Pete, with his wretched narration(there are never voiceovers in Westerns!), are dull and unreal.

Jim Kitses has called the film a melodrama, and to an extent this is true – this is no quest narrative; there is no building a white US culture, no battle between the primitive and civilisation as one finds in the Fordian western. Much of the action focuses on the domestic. A recurring motif is barbed wire, suggesting that the characters are as corralled as the animals they steer, in a prison whose walls actively hurt.

The film is also faintly unusual in having a woman in a pivotal role, although Patricia Arquette is, as usual, quite appaling. However, without me revealing it, the coda betrays all this, reverts twofold to the old ‘Print the legend’ pack of lies, and still holds out faith in the ‘Go west, young man’ myth, exactly as they did in the old days.

Stephen Frears has been praised for adapting to the mores of the Western, but this is surely untrue. Photographing desert landscapes, however beautifully, does not make you a great Western filmmaker. You must have a critical apparatus, whether its through the use of montage, like Peckinpah, or though music and composition, like Leone. As a revisionist, Frears has actually regressed from these masters. There is very little of his stamp at all, none of the genre knowledge he showed in The Grifters, one of the great films of the 90s.

He is best at revealing claustrophobic and deceitful sexual tensions and power games between small groups of (often related) people. There are some excellent examples of this here, especially when the four lovers gather after the barroom brawl; there are also a few good scenes, and gorgeous silhouettes: but mostly the thing flounders in its own insecurity and reverence.

Review By: alice liddell
Bad Western
“The Hi-Lo Country” was pretty bad, I would not recommend it. I won’t go into too much detail here, now 23 years later, but suffice to say that nothing works here: the plot, the acting, the music, the directing are all bad. A big disappointment, I had hoped that this was a hidden gem, but no it is a rightfully forgotten film. It was almost painful to watch in parts, seeing the dull expressionless actors (especially Arquette and Crudup) drone on throughout the film. This seemed to be at the start of that trend — of films featuring dull wooden acting, posing as deep and wrought, but really just vapid and pretentious (e.g. See “Napoleon Dynamite” and “No Country for Old Men”).

I will also start paying more attention to the directors and producers of films as there are some which I just don’t care for and that I feel are overrated such as: Otto Preminger, Brian de Palma, and Martin Scorsese. Lesson learned. My rating for this film: 3/10. And “The Hi-Lo Country” is now chiefly remembered as being one of Penelope Cruz’s first Hollywood films. She is good here as she always is, but it’s just a supporting role. And Katy Jurado is wasted in a small cameo. It’s a shame that this film wasn’t better because it could have been great given the right script, discipline, and direction.

Review By: ThomasColquith

Other Information:

Original Title The Hi-Lo Country
Release Date 1998-12-30
Release Year 1998

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 54 min (114 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Romance, Western
Director Stephen Frears
Writer Max Evans, Walon Green
Actors Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson, Patricia Arquette
Country United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Awards 4 wins & 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera J-D-C Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA (dailies), Technicolor, London, UK
Film Length 3,137 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process 2.35 Research (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm

The Hi-Lo Country 1998 123movies
The Hi-Lo Country 1998 123movies
Original title The Hi-Lo Country
TMDb Rating 6.208 72 votes

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