Silverado (1985)

One of my all time favorites.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

This is undoubtedly my all-time favorite western, with Open Range a close second...

I sometimes jokingly tell people this is the greatest Western I have ever watched. Then I wonder if I really am joking.From the opening scene where the buddies meet up to the introduction of the baddies and their actions. All seems plausible due to very good direction and writing. Yes there are clichés, but in a good way.If you like Westerns of any sort you will enjoy this movie.And now, a word about review length requirements. I added that longer middle section to fulfill the length requirement. I don't really think it adds to the review and I think shorter reviews should be allowed. After all, this last sentence would not be necessary at all.

Written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, "Silverado" (1985) is a strange beast. On one hand, the film is an obvious homage to roughly 70 years worth of Westerns, particularly those by John Ford, Anthony Mann, Howard Hawks and Sergio Leone. On the other hand, the film is a light-hearted adventure in the vein of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Kasdan, of course, famously worked on Lucas and Spielberg's "Indiana Jones" and "Star Wars" franchises, franchises which were themselves postmodern "updates" of 1930s pulp fantasies.Kasdan's approach should result in something flippant and silly. Tempering this is Kasdan's screenplay, which resembles his scripts for "The Big Chill" and "Grand Canyon", both of which were fairly serious, sprawling melodramas. The result is a film which is constantly pulling in multiple directions. "Silverado" is a highbrow western, but also a lowbrow crowd-pleaser. It's a comedy, but also a drama. It's a film packed with caricatures and cartoonish archetypes, but also one which attempts to sketch a large community of "serious" characters. And so on and so on."Silverado" is at its best during its first act, where Kasdan presents the jaunty adventures of well-meaning rascals. Amongst these are Emmet (Scott Glenn), Paden (Kevin Kline), Jake (Kevin Costner) and Mal (Danny Glover). Today, Mal's tale is the most interesting. An African American cowboy who's tired of being beaten down, Glover's character offers a sanitised version of 1970s blaxploitation heroes (particularly Fred Williamson's "Boss N****r" films) and also serves as the midpoint between John Ford's "Sergeant Rutledge" and Tarantino's "Django Unchained". In 1985, you simply didn't find westerns with black heroes like this.The rest of "Silverado" is less interesting, particularly its last act, which combines typical 1980s blockbuster excess (lots of gunfights), with a familiar plot about a corrupt sheriff (Brian Dennehy). A funny performance by Kevin Costner makes the film's second half tolerable, but it's not enough. "Silverado" becomes too humourless, too loud, too serious, a stance which the film is too dumb to make work. In a way, it's the Hollywood version of Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West", another cut-and-paste movie which, weighed down by pastiche, inexorably gets too big for its boots.7/10 – For those looking for better westerns, both high-brow and low (in that order), consider: Altman's "Sitting Bull" and "McCabe and Mrs Miller", Martin Ritt's "Hombre" and "Hud", "Ulzana's Raid", "Will Penny", "Ride with the Devil", Cox's "Walker", Benton's "Bad Company", Pontecorvo's "Burn!", "Dead Man", Siegel's "The Beguiled", "Lonely are the Brave", "Red River", "Dances with Wolves", "Viva Zapata", "Two Mules for Sister Sara", "My Darling Clementine", "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", Corbucci's "The Great Silence", "The Long Riders", "Wild Bill" (1995), "The Ballad of Cable Hogue", "Tombstone", "The Shootist" and Costner's "Open Range".

This has to be THE worst movie I have ever suffered through during my 57 years of breathing oxygen on this planet. It is not worthy of any more words from me. This is the first and last review I will ever write for IMDb being that they actually see this movie fit for review. OK, so the actors may have had fun making this movie, but I did not have fun watching it. I apologize to all movie lovers for giving this movie a rating of " 1 " . It does not deserve it, but I am as corruptible as the next guy, and will give it a 1 only because I have stooped so low to actually review this criminal production. I want to apologize to my family and friends for not only watching this rubbish, but actually commenting on it. If there is a hell in our universe, then I hope to go there and suffer for the crime of giving this movie any acknowledgment at all. My I suffer in eternity - it can't be as bad as the suffering I've been through watching Kevin Coaster make a total fool of himself in the worst movie ever made. Thank you for reading, and I apologize to you if you did.