| | | In a town with no justice, there is only one law... Every man for himself.
Features: DVD, Biographies, Film Highlights, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen
Bruce Willis (Die Hard Trilogy, Pulp Fiction, The Fifth Element) has never been tougher than when he goes up against two rival crime families in this supercharged action thriller from acclaimed director Walter Hill (48hrs., The Warriors).
Willis is John Smith, a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between the two gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances between them, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, he takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to remain The Last Man Standing.
Christopher Walken, Bruce Dern, and Karina Lombard co-star in this "shoot 'em up, slam-bang action bonanza!"
"Amazing... outrageous!" Michael Janusonis, Providence Journal-Bulletin
"One of the most exciting movies of the year!" Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
Editor's Note
In a dusty, Prohibition-era Texas border town, a lone-wolf hit-man richochets between rival mobs, pinning his allegiance to whomever offers more money for his services. But when he sticks his neck out to help a woman, he ends up risking more than money--he risks developing a conscience. Hill patterned his film after Kurosawa's legendary 1961 YOJIMBO.
Plot Summary
Enroute to Mexico during Prohibition, loner John Smith decides to rest at town of Jericho, Texas. He discovers that two rival bootleg gangs, one Italian, the other Irish, are seriously at odds with each other. So much so, that all of the residents have left, and the Sheriff has given up doing his job. | Sensing an opportunity to make money, Smith decides to hire himself out to BOTH factions -- and play each side against the other. Will Smith's clever scheme work? Or will the ensuing violence he causes take his life instead?
| Features | French Dolby Stereo | | Standard Version | | Widescreen Version | | English 5.1 Surround Dolby Digital | | Interactive Menus | | Cast/Crew Bios | | Film Highlights | | Filmographies | | Copy Protection | | Theatrical Trailer |
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Release Information
| | Studio: New Line |
| Release Date: 11/11/2008 |
| Running Time: 101 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1996 | | Catalog ID: 4507 | | UPC: 00794043450723 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 4:3/2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Bruce Dern | | Bruce Willis | | Christopher Walken | | David Patrick Kelly | | Karina Lombard | | William Sanderson | | Dan Moore - Costume Designer | | Walter Hill - Director | | Lloyd Ahern II - Director of Photography | | Freeman A. Davies - Editor | | Chris Worland - Editor | | Ron Cabreros - Editor | | Michael De Luca - Executive Producer | | Sara Risher - Executive Producer | | Ry Cooder - Musical Score | | Arthur M. Sarkissian - Producer | | Marta Merrifield - Producer | | Paula Heller - Producer | | Ralph S. Singleton - Producer | | Jeff Wincott - Producer | | Gary Wissner - Production Designer | | Akira Kurosawa - Screenplay | | Walter Hill - Screenplay | | Ryuzo Kikushima - Screenplay |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"Bruce Willis comes out blasting..." 10/17/1996 p.144Sight and Sound
"...[The film] looks wonderful....Fine music from longtime collaborator Ry Cooder..." 11/01/1996 p.52-3 Variety
"...Ahern provides dynamic widescreen framing..." 09/16/1996 Los Angeles Times
"...[It] sounds wonderful with its mournful, portentous Ry Cooder score and stars a well-cast Bruce Willis exuding calm, reflective authority...[A] handsome, carefully wrought film..." 09/20/1996 p.F10 Box Office Magazine 0 of 10
Although Willis provides a commanding performance, it's Bruce Dern as a corrupt sheriff who has the best lines, providing some well-needed comic relief in this heavy, gritty modern-day western. Lombard gives a haunting turn as Felina, the Native American beauty imprisoned by Doyle. Christopher Walken adds a scary presence in a small role as a hitman. Ry Cooder's edgy soundtrack provides just the right amount of atmosphere to the plethora of action scenes; you can almost smell the gunpowder smoking. - Pat Kramer
VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 0 of 10
Engaging, but not terribly original gangster/western features a plot taken from Clint Eastwood's career-making Fistful Of Dollars (in turn, an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo). The producers and credits claim lineage directly from the Kurosawa film, but this story's been around for a while... Willis nicely injects his smirking brand of wit into a film that may have benefitted from more of the dark Yojimbo action sequences.
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