The West is nowhere close as it was as it was, but it never disappeared completely. In fact, in recent years, the creator of "Yellowlston" Taylor Sheridan has independently nurtured something from the Western Renaissance with his series of neo-Western TV shows. But even before the Yellowlotiston became a huge hit that is known as today, the studio continued to release the strange modern Oter here and there, and some of them were quite good.

Indeed, 21st century boasts more than its part of the great Western filmsWith 2007, it marked the arrival of one of the best revisionist western so far in the form of "aspiration of Essi Jamesesiyes by the coward Robert Ford" ... Although only Greenlit got it because Warner Bros.'s executives. thought they got a classic shoot-u-up. Regardless, the haunting, elegant deconstruction of Western tropes and the myth of celebrity was proof that the Western genre still had a lot to offer the art front (Roger Dequins' excellent cinematography also helped a lot), although he did not make a very good financial financial.

Interestingly, a movie released a year earlier felt as if she could do something similar. But this drama by Liam Nyson and Pierce Brosnan only fell, despite the seemingly all the ingredients necessary for the unforgettable modern western. What went wrong? Well, nothing catastrophic (aside from the box office), because the film was in line with critics. However, there is a reason that you haven't heard much about the movie since its 2006 release.

"Seraphim Halls" is television producer and director David von Anken, the first and only feature film. He plays Pierce Brosnan as Gideon, a former union officer, who is on the run by the Confederation Colonel Morsman Carver (Liam Neeson) at the end of the US Civil War. Carver accuses Gideon of a terrible incident during the war in which his wife and children were killed when their house was burned. Overcoming the idea of ​​revenge, Carver will stop anything to finally bring Gideon to justice (which, in this case, in essence, just means killing him). But while he clearly sees better days, Gideon remains evil and manages to overcome his pursuers before Carver inevitably follows and the last fight takes place.

Similar to the "assassination of Esses Jameseims", "Seraphim Halls" was characterized by impressive cinematography by Johnon Tol ("Legends of Fall" and "Brave Heart") and dealt with difficult topics of violence, sadness and revenge. Her two strained waters also borrowed a certain stuck, sad tone of the whole thing, presenting as two men whose years of fame were far behind them. Simply put, "Seraphim Falls" could have been much better than it was, but as Independent Anthony Quinn He wrote about the film, "John Anken at times makes his debut very close to something big and unforgettable."

The film premiered at the 2006 International Film Festival in Toronto, before receiving a limited theater release in 2007. While the initial reactions were solid, "Seraphim Falls" did not get the best critical reaction after the theater race and eventually ended in becoming an entrance to the West Canon. Could you consider it to underestimated western worthy of your attention Depende depends on your own tastes, but according to critics, you will need to prepare for a slow pace and the greatest feeling that the film simply does not realize its full potential.

"Seraphim falls" $ 1.2 million During its limited theater work. That's about $ 18 million a budget, which is obviously not what the distributor Samuel Goldwin was hoping for. That said, the film seemed designed from the beginning as a release directly to home, and probably did well on that front, though the numbers were not available.

It is a really mixed critical reaction that is the most memorable here. At that time, Liam Neeson had just appeared as al -Gul of the villain Ra in the excellent "Batman starts" by Christopher Nolan. Meanwhile, Pierce Brosnan may have left the franchise Jameseims Bond on the sour note with "Die Another Day" in 2002 (Which widely considered the worst movie 007) but it seemed ready to remind the audience of his obvious talents until 2006. Unfortunately, a score of 57% Rotten tomatoes I need to tell you everything you need to know about the quality of the film.

Reviewers mostly dealt with the pace of the film and what many people considered to be David von Anken's inability to bring something new to the western genre. But the critics were not entirely of the film, with the Times of the Times (UK) finding a "tricky pleasure" in "Pure Brutality of the Past and the Bitter Struggle to Survive the Elements". Richard Roper also enjoyed the film, writing: "Although the move threatens to last too long, the suspension remains high because we do not know who the real villain is, or if there is a villain at all." Others were less forgiven, with Kevin Crezzi at the Los Angeles Times claiming the film "Moving along with minimalist efficiency before gasoline expired during the last allegory of the last section". Meanwhile, Ruth Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle considered it "something more than a prolonged scene after a snow -filled mountain to the desert floor".

Whatever, no one had too much problem with Brosnan or Nyson, who did his best to do the western middle of the road in something more. Critics had a different taking over whether they succeeded in that regard, but none were pure hostile to the leading men. However, the feeling that the film could have been more than the debris, although it would be interesting to see how it would be released today.