Appaloosa (2008) is different than The Appaloosa (1966) which starred Marlon Brando. The new Appaloosa stars Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen as traveling lawmen for hire. It's also directed by Ed Harris. It's a throwback old style Western. Not a lot of mysteries in this movie. Jeremy Irons as the bad guy blasts the Sheriff and Ed & Viggo go after him with some gratuitous Rene Zellweger thrown in as a multi-partner love interest.
Because the BluRay (it's funny, the spell checker wants to make BluRay into blurry - how ironic!) makes everything so clear, when they are patrolling the main street of the town, I was enjoying reading all the signage - Fire Insurance, Clothing for Ladies and Gents, Mining Assay office, etc. I've never noticed those kinds of signs in a movie before.
Appaloosa is a very laconic and laid back movie, but the story moves along and I enjoyed it. No Franks and there should have been chickens, but all I saw were lots of goats, so that's disappointing.
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