Review of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) by Drew B — 22 Jan 2013

Terribly disappointed. Exceedingly tedious story stretched over two hours and forty minutes of my life I'm never getting back. The general plot resolves one person's adoration for an outlaw turns to insidious rage and ends in self destruction.

Woopity flipping doo.

You cannot, in my view, seperate Pitt from his role in Fight Club while watching this movie. His laughs, his movements, everything about him said "You are not your f-ing khakis!" and it was abominable. The very notion of acting is the ability to put on a character and clothe yourself in them to the point where you the person are invisible and all that remains is this entirely separate individual, the character. Here, however, we see the complete opposite. Imagine, if you will, that the next time you saw Michael Keaton in a movie, every line he said was lifted from Batman. That's about how this one went. I would rather have heard them all talking about soap creation, animated squirrels with celebrity voices, are the construction of napalm from household ingredients than subject myself to the lack of a script and lack of enjoyment that was, supposedly, littered in every scene of this film.