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Seraphim Falls:
.... at the final furlong.
I love the landscape that Seraphim Falls opens with, snow covered mountains, beautiful country, so I already liked this movie for no other reason. It is an ambition of mine, since passing through it on a slow moving train, to walk through a wintery Rockies with a loaded mule or horse. Falls opens in just such country and Pierce Brosnan is the befurr'd mountain man/trapper cooking game over an open fire. There our respective paths would part ways as Brosnan is shot and persued by a posse led by an avenging Liam Neeson. What is he avenging? Well that doesn't become absolutely clear until the final fifth of the movie and that, unfortunately is the movies weak spot.
From Brosnan seated at the camp fire to last twenty minutes we get a pretty honest to goodness Western. One of those modern westerns that Clint Eastwood made a staple of and there's nothing wrong with that in my opinion. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to have been enough for the director/producer/whomever as things take an unnecessary turn throuh the last twenty minutes.
Trying to raise the film above and beyond itself the film loses its way and we are left with an unsatifactory ending. Sometimes a film zigs left when it should have zagged right and this is one of those occasions. Enjoy the first hour and a half and forgive them the trespass of the last twenty minutes.
Seraphim Falls:
.... at the final furlong.
I love the landscape that Seraphim Falls opens with, snow covered mountains, beautiful country, so I already liked this movie for no other reason. It is an ambition of mine, since passing through it on a slow moving train, to walk through a wintery Rockies with a loaded mule or horse. Falls opens in just such country and Pierce Brosnan is the befurr'd mountain man/trapper cooking game over an open fire. There our respective paths would part ways as Brosnan is shot and persued by a posse led by an avenging Liam Neeson. What is he avenging? Well that doesn't become absolutely clear until the final fifth of the movie and that, unfortunately is the movies weak spot.
From Brosnan seated at the camp fire to last twenty minutes we get a pretty honest to goodness Western. One of those modern westerns that Clint Eastwood made a staple of and there's nothing wrong with that in my opinion. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to have been enough for the director/producer/whomever as things take an unnecessary turn throuh the last twenty minutes.
Trying to raise the film above and beyond itself the film loses its way and we are left with an unsatifactory ending. Sometimes a film zigs left when it should have zagged right and this is one of those occasions. Enjoy the first hour and a half and forgive them the trespass of the last twenty minutes.