Carl the Critic: Reviews "True Grit"
Carl the Critic: Reviews "True Grit"
The Following was a review for "True Grit" made by me this year on January 10.
I must admit that after seeing "Tron Legacy" I was a bit angry at Jeff Bridges, and felt that there was no chance that he would ever in a million years be forgiven in my eyes for such a piece of crap film with awesome music and so so special effects. But I am pleased to say that it has either been a million years or I must have misjudge him as an actor at any rate "True Grit" is a movie that had changed my mind about the man's abilities yet again. The story is about a little girl named Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), a girl who is as stubborn as a mule who is seeking revenge on the man named Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), who killed her father because of a dispute of some pony or gold (I couldn't tell which because of the strange dialogue), but at any rate she hires a one-eyed bounty hunter named Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to help her find and kill the man who killed her father. Cogburn also is helping Laboeuf (Matt Damon) or "The Texas Ranger", a sorta creepy whiney bitch who keeps coming and going and coming and going back and forth. Laboeuf is looking for Chaney for different reasons, Chaney killed a Texas senator over a dispute over a dog (which led me to theorize that this guy has a thing for animals) and so Laboeuf is hired by the family of the senator to bring Chaney to Texas to see him hang. But Mattie is from Alabama so she doesn't like that idea hat her father's killer be killed in a place where some senator was killed because who cares about state senators?
The story of "True Grit" is definitely solid and is one of the best remakes I had seen in a while, but there seems to be that the characters in the movie kept on increasing as the movie progressed, and then decreasing at the same rate, leaving very little time to care about them and leaving the question "why did that person matter in the story?" It is very hard to understand the movie at times, and it is almost like a foreign film the way the movie was using terms that haven't existed in about 100 years. "Well Dog my Cats where did that prairie dog rallied himself abouts to?" This is a western term that apparently means "Hello where's the bathroom?" In addition to people who hate violence or gore of any kind, I warn you (without spoiling the plot) that there are some very intense scenes that may be hard for you to watch. But I for one really enjoyed myself through out the movie and felt that the Coen Brothers did the original movie justice.
OVERALL: I gave "True Grit," 8.4 out of 10, because it went beyond my expectations and I feel like it does the original John Wayne film justice.
I definitely recommend this movie and hope that if anyone is reading this thing (up to the very end and in that case congrats, you deserve an award of some kind) please feel free to like my review or comment as to why I am wrong. :)