Review of Heaven's Gate (1980) by Adam C — 12 Apr 2008
What's great about this movie is the brutal and realistic way it's told. In the 19th century, there were associations and groups that felt they were larger than life and could kill people, if necessary, to meet their means. The railroad was one of them.
What's funny is how the attitude toward immigrants in the movie still exists today in Wyoming, only now they're afraid of illegal immigrants and not European immigrants who want to farm in the West.
Even though this is the film that brought United Artists down, the film wasn't THAT bad. The brutality and realism are what drive this epic. Unfortunately, you have to play connect the dots to all the story lines with your head and not with dialogue in the movie which frustrates a lot of people AND pushes the film close to 4 hours in length. A little more dialogue might have helped cut spare the transitions in the film from being boring.
This review of Heaven's Gate (1980) was written by Adam C on 12 Apr 2008.
Heaven's Gate has generally received positive reviews.
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