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| United Artists | Release Date: November 19, 1980 |
Starring:
Brad Dourif, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Joseph Cotten, Kris Kristofferson, Paul Koslo, Ronnie Hawkins, Sam Waterston
Summary:
A dramatization of the real-life Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, in which a Sheriff born into wealth, attempts to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.
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The first scenes of Heaven’s Gate are so energetic and beautiful that anyone who knows the saga of the $35 million epic might begin to think it was going to be worth every penny. Unfortunately the balance of director Michael Cimino’s film is so confusing, so overlong at three-and-a-half hours and so ponderous that it fails to work at almost every level.
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An epic vision isn't worth much if you can't tell a story. This, in a nutshell, is the problem at the heart of the three-hour-and-39-minute debacle called Heaven's Gate. In his painstaking quest for period authenticity and his reliance on the operatic set piece, Cimino has lost all sight of day-to-day reality--and all sense of dramatic truth. [01 Dec 1980, p.88]
Jul 20, 2019
I liked this movie. Yeah, sometimes it's slow, but it's an interesting story.
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