The Harder They Fall

Name: The Harder They Fall
Genre: Drama, Western
Released: October 22, 2021
Rating: 68
Cast: Delroy Lindo, Edi Gathegi, Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors, Lakeith Stanfield

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Netflix | Release Date: October 22, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Delroy Lindo, Edi Gathegi, Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors, Lakeith Stanfield, Regina King, RJ Cyler, Steve Corona, Tait Fletcher, Zazie Beetz

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Debuts on Netflix on November 3, 2021.

Summary: When outlaw Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) discovers that his enemy Rufus Buck (Idris Elba) is being released from prison he rounds up his gang to track Rufus down and seek revenge. Those riding with him in this assured, righteously new school Western include his former love Stagecoach Mary (Zazie Beetz), his right and left hand men —When outlaw Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) discovers that his enemy Rufus Buck (Idris Elba) is being released from prison he rounds up his gang to track Rufus down and seek revenge. Those riding with him in this assured, righteously new school Western include his former love Stagecoach Mary (Zazie Beetz), his right and left hand men — hot-tempered Bill Pickett (Edi Gathegi) and fast drawing Jim Beckwourth (R.J. Cyler)—and a surprising adversary-turned-ally. Rufus Buck has his own fearsome crew, including “Treacherous” Trudy Smith (Regina King) and Cherokee Bill (LaKeith Stanfield), and they are not a group that knows how to lose. … Expand

Director: Jeymes Samuel

Genre(s): Drama, Western

Rating: Not Rated

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RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Oct 22, 2021

The Harder They Fall is a bloody pleasure: a revenge Western packed with memorable characters played by memorable actors, each scene and moment staged for voluptuous beauty and kinetic power. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Oct 21, 2021

Even with all the shootouts and robberies and action sequences, this is also a wonderful showcase for screen-stealing acting, with virtually everyone in the all-star cast getting some center stage moments and knocking it out of the park. This is one of those movies where we sense the cast had just as much fun making it as we have watching it. Read full review

Martin Carr

Oct 26, 2021

This bombastic Western debut heralds a new voice in cinema. Read full review

Sarah-Tai Black

Oct 26, 2021

Buoyed by its urgent yet playful references to the real-life history of the Black West, Netflix’s newest genre outing The Harder They Fall is an energetic and poppy crowd-pleaser of a film made even better by its punky indifference toward staid conventions of period filmmaking. Read full review

K. Austin Collins

Nov 9, 2021

The Harder They Fall is a good piece of wish-fulfillment pop. It knows what it is. It’s accomplished enough not to be mistaken for what it isn’t trying to be. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Nov 4, 2021

Samuel makes the most of his formidable cast. If anything, he may be overgenerous. The narrative sometimes flags so that everyone can get in a few volleys of the salty, pungent dialogue on the way to the next round of gunplay or fisticuffs. Read full review

John Anderson

Nov 4, 2021

To call The Harder They Fall transgressive would be giving it too much credit: Its various outrages are obnoxious because they have so little to do with anything like a story—which, for all the subplots and posing to come, is about payback for that first scene. Read full review

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Leomasc7

Nov 2, 2021

It's an excellent movie, with an impeccable cast, with an amazing script. Everything in this movie fitted well and turned out well, I'm looking forward to a sequel. They could put this movie on for 20 hours that I would watch without sleep.

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ibukunodutola

Nov 7, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Best movie 2021 touch down; this should have had a 100000000 rating no movie in the united states beat this so wake up folks time to open ur eyes to the new south… Expand

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tonyfred898

Nov 4, 2021

Great Action! A little over the top but loved every minute! Standouts were Regina King and Lakeith Standsfield! Must watch!

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andre27

Dec 1, 2021

É um bom filme, com um bom elenco, que por vezes nos deixa na duvida de quem vai ou não morrer e que tem um bom final. Sem duvida um filme que vale a pena ver

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Ralfbergs

Feb 1, 2022

I really liked the first part of the movie and how it looked and all the characters, but the end part of it felt so simplistic and loaded with cliches from past that I felt it couldve been better if story would be different at end. For example, classic cliche was when Zazie's character justI really liked the first part of the movie and how it looked and all the characters, but the end part of it felt so simplistic and loaded with cliches from past that I felt it couldve been better if story would be different at end. For example, classic cliche was when Zazie's character just went to search for Elba's character alone, like it would not be predictable, that they would not fall for it that she is going there to just buy saloons or whatever. Anyway, I enjoyed the movie style etc, but did not like the ending.… Expand

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snorkiss

Nov 4, 2021

The Harder They Fall could've been a fascinating look at the real life black cowboys of the wild west, instead we get a silly MTV inspired cartoon - 3 stars for the historical stuff it's based on.

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Mrchisim72

Nov 8, 2021

Fantastic actors.. but the unrealistic action scenes were impossible to overcome.. and not enough time to get into the terrible dialogue.

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