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- All the Pretty Horses
(Reviewed December 23, 2000, by James Dawson)
- Beautifully photographed but frustratingly dull. There's nothing offensively bad about this movie, it just stays stuck in idle for two hours and never takes off. Matt Damon,
excellent in last year's "Talented Mr. Ripley," plays his off-to-Mexico 1949 cowboy character with such bland flatness that it is hard to care about his south-of-the-border troubles. And while Penelope
Cruz
gets away with merely being achingly beautiful in airy nothings like "Woman on Top," she is completely out of her depth in a movie requiring any, well, depth.
Supposedly, director Billy Bob Thornton's original cut of this movie ran four hours but was whacked down to two. But if this is the faster, zippier cut, I can't imagine seeing a version twice as
long without sinking into a catatonic state.
Back Row Grade: D
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