One of the acclaimed actor's first westerns sees him giving it his all to a character that feels more like a cosplay cowboy than the real deal.
When you enter into a film that stars Nicolas Cage, you’re certain to get a performance that is as distinct as the man himself. We’ve seen it recently in the melancholic experience of the sublime Pig or the maddening genre mashup that is Prisoners of the Ghostland. Cage is a one-of-a-kind screen presence whose intensity, when part of a well-constructed work, always makes his movies ones to watch.
This all begins when the fresh-faced and naive college drop-out Will Andrews makes his way to the town of Butcher's Crossing in the hopes of undertaking his own hunting party. He is mostly in for a sense of adventure and will dangle the potential profit of the value of buffalo hides that dominated the 1870s era to get others to accompany them. He stumbles upon the bald, pipe-smoking Miller at the saloon who claims to know where there is a large herd that no one else knows about.
Cage Is Better Than 'Butcher's Crossing' It turns a film that could and should have been much more focused into one that feels oddly bloated. Many scenes drag on for far too long and only end up robbing the more impactful ones of their impact when they get truncated. There are rather significant changes made to the story from the book that try to instill some sort of additional conflict to keep us engaged.
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