As a Western, Kevin Costner, who is a star, director and producer, continues his tradition in "Dancing with Wolves", although the plot has been cut for nearly 30 minutes, the film is still 139 minutes long, and in fact, the story can be told within 100 minutes.
The story of this film is a very standard Western film pattern, the passing cowboy is bullied by local bullies and collusive officials, and finally the intolerable cowboys and the oppressed local people unite to fight with the derelict officials and local bullies.
But the gunfight here does not have the same blood boiling as "Heroic Seven Dragons", but the abnormal rationality and approach to the realistic route, which is completely the traditional gunfight film's set of "bigger than the fist" routine. At the same time, the length of the gun battle is not strictly long, and the whole film took more than 100 minutes to start a large gunfight. The first half of the more intensive conflict, the second half also because of the need for plot deduction, so pause to carry out nonsense before continuing the second half.
It can be seen that Kevin Costner wants to try to get closer to the anti-Western literary and youth route routine of "Unforgivable", and even arranges the protagonist in the shootout of the main play is also a plot design that will be shot (but the supporting role of the townspeople is actually shot!). However, from time to time, Kevin Costner's past male idol traits are too strong, and the overall performance is even less distinctive than the "Shocking Earth" that his villain first experienced.
In fact, as long as Kevin Costner performs works with Western elements, it is difficult to jump out of the actor image of "Iron Mask Selfless" and "Dances with Wolves". Even if a group of actors with successful acting skills are found to help support the car, it is difficult to hide his idol aura. Isn't the image of capone's men who killed capone with a shotgun in the first shot at the end of the film that killed Capone's men with a shotgun?
Then, the place where this "Heaven and Earth Unlimited" can be seen, it seems that the only thing left is the retro approach of focusing the story conflict on the end of "Noontime Mystery", which is worthy of affirmation, considering that it was the premise of the Western films of the 30s and 40s.
It is not that the audience's standards for "Heaven and Earth Unlimited" are too high, but that another Western film in the same period, "Iron Courage and Pride", has a more breakthrough freshness in the creative concept of the story. The metaphor of the Western as a group of men with good guns grabbing women with guns, and the only female character is to follow biological instincts, who is strong with whom, such a story concept is indeed more novel than the pure tradition of "Heaven and Earth Infinite".
Simply put, clint Eastwood's Unforgivable is the only real last work that can be called a Western. After that, other western-themed works have only been used in the traditional excavation without any breakthrough, and they are just old terriers that the audience has forgotten.
Produced in 2003, Kevin Costner self-directed and self-directed, and the film also features Robert Duval and Annette Benin, playing the local bully villain michael Gambon, the second-generation Dumbledore Principal.
Basically, it's not bad to look at as a landscape film with a Western plot, at least the depth of field and tone are not bad, the end gun battle is a good sound test point, and the soundtrack is also the level of Kevin Costner's director's work. But by the standards of a feature film or a Western, it can only be said that it is not satisfactory.