Wild Horses (2015)

Load of rubbish!!

Admirable film.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

When you have Robert Duvall, James Franco and Josh Hartnett it would be a challenge to make a bad movie, while this is not a horrendous film it has a huge amount of flaws. Casting your wife in the film might earn you brownie points but she takes wooden to a whole new level. I can only presume the director wanted her to spend the film acting like a trauma victim. This was a real disjointed film with things thrown in which added nothing to the plot, what was going on with Josh Harnett and his wife? someone tries to murder a Texas Ranger and nothing is done or even discussed, what did the Will scene add to the film? Some excellent cinematography of the mountains and plains can not rescue the film, it is poorly paced with little tension and an awful script some of the support actors appear to be reading from cue cards. The central 'reveal' is mundane and a bit stupid, you are chased from a house by a gun toting redneck so you hide in the barn? then when the horse kick kills him Robert Duvall thinks it is a good idea to bury the body? it makes no sense. Shame with the talent available we ended with entirely forgettable film

As a genuine movie enthusiast, I can usually find something worthwhile in a movie... maybe it's an intriguing premise, even if it hasn't been at all well realised... maybe good performances elevate a hackneyed script... maybe there's great cinematography, if nothing else. But Wild Horses defies you to engage with it at every turn. It utterly fails to deliver as the psychological thriller it seems to aspire to be. The script offers no surprises or delights. The pace is so sluggish it often seems more like a rough cut than a finished film. And the female lead - Mrs Duval - gives the most amateurish performance seen in a Hollywood release in some decades. Mr Duval does his usual taciturn schtick to absolutely zero effect. And only James Franco seems to be investing his role with some genuine emotion and enthusiasm - perhaps in the misguided belief that it might be worth the effort. The up side to the boredom that the film generates is that you won't care when it fails to deliver any kind of satisfying ending. Best avoided.

Maybe I'm simple minded, but I enjoyed watching the movie. No it wasn't an "A" movie and never expected it to be. As for Robert Duval what can said that hasn't been said. Maybe, many of the critic don't like him, but he is one of the great actors of our time. Lots of things could have been put into the movie, sex, passionate love, shoot outs, more car chases, conflict, but no the movie had snippets of a man who has gotten his own way all his life with as little attachment as possible. The rules are his and he rules the roost. All the while his inner emotions longed control now must come out as his end in life nears. The weak side of the movie is the beginning and the why of it. Another weakness is character development. All in all, I enjoyed it, but cannot say it is a favorite.

Interesting idea for a story, great cast, but.......disjointed script.....and worse......Robert Duvall's wife as a Texas Ranger.....She killed the movie as soon as she walked on scene.....then she proceeded to beat the poor film until it died of exhaustion and sadness....I suppose that nepotism rules here.Waste of an otherwise great cast, good cinematography, and production quality. I wanted to like this film, but simply could not......and I hope that Duvall's beautiful wife stays in his life, BUT NOT ON SCREEN!!!!!