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Ya done good Tommy After posting my review I read the other reviews. It is interesting the different takes people have on it perhaps based on how far from here they live or their own prejudices and assumptions. Mike Norton is the only Border Patrol agent ( aka La Migra) who is such an evil person. It is not all whites are bad, all Mexicans good. It is not that we need a fence or a wall (ask the Russians, you build a wall and you still have to watch it). I do not see that illegal immigration is much of an issue here, the local authorities would not have cared any more if it had been a US hitch hiker. The blind old man gives TLJ a way of saying they do not want to offend God and lets one reflect on how your own life might end lonely or worse in a nursing home. Other reviewers can not imagine someone doing something like this for a friend. Those people would be out of place and easy to ID in a truck stop, a cowboy bar, a dirt floor cantena and probably a GI bar as well. Maybe I am not smart enough or educated enough to make a lot of the comparisons made by so many reviewers but it is a pretty simple story done with real people... Much like Glory Road and Friday Night Lights. I thought there were lots of funny parts and yes I did wonder about Pete telling LouAnn that Mike had killed Mel in Spanish. I also wonder about reviewers that do not know a goat from a sheep or a coyote from a Fox. Rating:  - Got A Jones For JanuaryBrilliant movie. I won't go into the plot, don't have the time, but if you liked Lonesome Dove and such, you will love this one. It's a tad gritty though. Jones's face is a craggy and rugged and beat up as the rough Texican country that the movie is set in. And ol' Levon Helm has seen better days, too; both could stand some serious dermatological hydration. But here's the thing: Barry Pepper's border guard deserves a knock upside the head for not keeping little hot blonde January Jones home and happy. This angelic actress had a very tiny bit part in Love Actually, and she has to be the most beautiful creature I've seen in a looooonnngggg time. I'm not sure she's such a good actress--who cares?--but as far as eye candy goes, she's sweeter than sugar! So good-looking in fact, that I found it very hard to believe that Pepper's character was bored or depressed with her around. But maybe that was the point; perhaps Tommy Lee was trying to suggest that this guy was so zoned out and preoccupied that he couldn't be jarred out of his funk by anything or anyone. Tommy Lee Jones has certainly come a long way since "The Eyes Of Laura Mars". Rating: - Loving Dwight In This MovieDwight is seen alot in this movie I love seeing him in every part of this movie It is a must have movie for any Dwight Yoakam fan Rating: - De-Sanitize ProsecutionAfter watching "Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada", I realized how we as a society have sanitized the prosecution process and the offender never developes, NO clue, NO empathy as a result of the crime or crimes they commit. In our system of justice, the offender is completely isolated from the victim and the resulting harm inflicted on anyone connected with the victim or victims. And the offender is even protected from harming himself while incarcerated...we the government closely watch over the ones we keep, but we the government do not know how to stop/deter bad behavoir, even following study after study. In the past, I believe religion played a big role in how people, on their own, disciplined themselves, but that era has gone by the wayside, and we have what we see today...a society sanitized by a government that cannot protect itself from itself because we threw history away! All comments aside, the writer of the story and Tommy Lee did a wonderful job reminding us that there may be a way to show the offender the depth of harm committed on the victim and his survivors. In this case, that the words "illegel alien" had an actual person attached to them. In other cases, that the word "woman" or "child" has an actual person with actual characteristics attached to it. The victim sat here, they slept there, they eat here, they liked this, they liked that, or they bent this rule, but didn't break that rule, and it was a down-right good person the offender killed! Rating: - Sorry Clint, there's a new sherriff in town.I love the classic westerns of the 60's and 70's, but sadly many of today's modern westerns just don't live up. Other than the occasional movie like "Lone Star," western fans are lost in the desert. "Unforgiven" was outrageously overrated, and also so has most everything Clint Eastwood has done in the past 30 years as actor and/or director. Besides of course the slew of awesome 60's and 70's westerns, for me "Dirty Harry" was the last good thing Eastwood has done. I'm sorry but "Unforgiven" just didn't do it for me. Entertaining: yes. Best Picture deserved: nope. Then, just out of the clear blue, we get this! A masterpiece from a first time director! Where did this come from? Where did you get this, Tommy? Why were you holding out on us? I had written Tommy Lee Jones completely off due to his terribly mediocre script choices over the past 10 years and then he goes and pulls this out! I put off seeing it until now because of the same reason. I mean folks, the man has done more than his share of paycheck cashing movies over the past decade since he made his post-"Fugitive" comeback. I watched this with a combination of sheer cinematic joy and pleasant bewilderment. Bewilderment that Tommy Lee Jones made this amazing movie, this amazing movie that I never would have thought he had it in him. Not to mention his great acting, by the way. At first blush this is a solid 9/10 to 9.5/10. Way to go Tommy! |