3:10 to Yuma
Genre: Crime/Drama/Western
Cast: Christian Bale, Russell Crowe, …
Director: James Mangold
Release: (2007)
 
3:10 To Yuma [Blu-ray]
Among the very few things I’ve learned from very many failed relationships, there is one mistake I know I’ve made more than any other: not appreciating what I have when I have it. Whether it’s false nostalgia for an old flame (who was probably not nearly as fun to be with as I will tell myself she was) or infatuation with a new possibility (like some chirpy, nineteen year old Dane Cook fan who I will somehow convince myself might just be my soulmate and who, in less than three months, will have me seriously considering ways to safely crash my car into a tree just to avoid talking to), the one thing I understand now is that the grass always looks greener when I’ve got my green sunglasses on. But not this time, my friends, for one time in my life I have finally seen the error of my ways before it is too late and am here to show you yours as well.
What I’ve see is the senselessness of a pipe-dream we’ve all been romanticizing in our minds for years, which never before did and never again will live up to the image we’ve created of it. And what else I’ve seen is a reality much better than our dream, standing right before our eyes, which we’ve all been too distracted to appreciate. Well I’m not going to throw this one away, and I’m not going to let you either. So I want you to look at me. And I want you to listen. And I want you to really hear me when I say this.
DENIRO AND PACINO ARE NOT THAT GOOD TOGETHER! THERE IS NO CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THEM – STOP DREAMING ABOUT IT!
Sorry, I know that can be a little jarring the first time you hear it, but it needed to be said. You may not want to believe it, but I think that deep inside you already knew. I know you remember Heat, but do you really remember Heat? The scene at the diner? That highlight of our lives we’d all been waiting for. It’s time to stop trying to remember what we want to believe happened and just remember what happened. Just two guys talking, that’s all it ever was. No great chemistry, no great spark. Nothing more compelling than any two other actors could have made it. And yet we continue to treat it like so many old flames – as if the bad stuff weren’t so bad and that with one more chance we could get it right. But it’s time to face the facts: it was never as good as we want to think it was, and one more chance is just going to break our hearts again. Believe me, I’ve seen the previews for Righteous Kill, and you are just setting yourself up for disaster with that one. It doesn’t have to make anyone less of a person to admit that they’re just not right together.
So why am I telling you all this? Mostly, because I have space to fill. But also because I want you to know that there’s still a chance for you to be happy if you’re willing to open up to it. Everything you ever wanted and could have hoped for out of a DeNiro-Pacino showdown is just sitting out there on a shelf somewhere, waiting for you to see it. It’s Christian Bale and Russell Crowe, it’s 3:10 to Yuma, and it is everything you’ve been searching for.
3:10 to Yuma is director James Mangold’s remake of the 1957 film of the same name. The story follows down-on-his-luck rancher and Civil War vet Dan Evans (Bale), as he agrees to join a small posse charged with transporting notorious outlaw Ben Wade (Crowe) to a prison train a few towns away. It doesn’t take long for both men to realize that Evans is the only one among the ragtag posse who is any match for Wade, and with Evans just as determined to fulfill his obligation and earn the money for his family as Wade is to not end up on that train, the intensity between the two of them quickly begins to boil. With an excellent supporting cast (other than the minor distraction of his always-too-clean-for-the-old-west looking older son), a gorgeous landscape and a roller coaster plot, 3:10 to Yuma is the rare kind of movie that returned me to the world with no idea of what time it was or how long I had been watching it when it ended.
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