Appaloosa (2008)

Cautiously Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Ed Harris

Writers: Robert Knott, Ed Harris, Robert Parker

Cinematographer: Dean Semler

Composer: Jeff Beal

Cast: Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Lance Henriksen, Adam Nelson, Timothy Spall, Ariadna Gil

A vicious, uncompromising lawman – hired by a small town, whose previous marshal was gunned down by a local rancher who continues to terrorise the general populace – finds his task complicated when an attractive widow catches his eye, dulling his ruthlessness somewhat, in Harris’s violent and downbeat but diverting and well-played western. Iain.Stott