This 2003 outing saw a return to form and some new life breathed into the lung of the classic American Western. Now it is time for me to take aim and fire off in a film filled frenzy of favoritism. So I grabbed my reviewer’s revolver and these are the bullets I loaded up my cinematic 6-shooter with. I wanted to examine the best of the past two decades in this genre and the incarnations they have taken.
This evolution of the Western is something that has always intrigued me and this is what led me here. How each generation’s auteurs have had a different take and interpretation of the facts, the events, and the just the overall lifestyle is so captivating. Throughout the years it has changed and morphed with its audience. There are few genres that are as capable of enduring as the Western. There is just something about the sense of wild freedom that it represents. Whether that be the original Magnificent 7, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Silverado, Pale Rider, Once Upon a Time in the West or Unforgiven, I have and forever will be fascinated with the Western era. I have gone through the decades watching each and every classic cowboy cinematic experience. It is as much ingrained into me as any other genre. The stories of the gunslingers and lawmen, the bandits, and the seekers of justice. For as long as I can remember I have been raised on the tales of the old West.
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