American Outlaws DVD
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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: FARRELL,COLIN
EAN: 9780790761763
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790761769
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledFrenchDubbedDolby Digital 2.0
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: WARD19031D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 04, 2001
Running Time: 94 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 17, 2001
Average Rating: 
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This movie is what a movie was designed to do! Entertain you for a hour and half...peroid. Ok, its not historically accurate...so what? It was zainey, fun, action packed and some great casting! Enjoy!
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The only reason I purchased this DVD is because Kathy Bates is in the film, I knew nothing about it. But what an action packed adventure this turned out to be. The casting is excellent as well as the performances of all the actors involved. Having read several books about Jesse James as well as a biography of his mother, my first reaction was negative due to historical inaccuracies , but it was so action packed I couldn't stop watching. There are some wonderful `behind the scenes' in the bonus ... Read More
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Good fictitious western entertainment but I wish if they were going to make a fictitious movie they would use fictional characters instead of historic people.They take a murderer and thief and turn him into a hero.How would people react if they made a movie about Timothy Mcveigh and made a hero of him?It would not be too cool.
"The James brothers, Frank and Jesse, were Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War, during which they were accused of participating in atrocities committed against ... Read More
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As westerns go, "American Outlaws" amounts to an above-average horse opera that knows when to giddy-yap and when to giddy-up. Les Mayfield, who directed "Flubber" and "Blue Streak," stages several exhilarating but bloodless gunfights that owe their epic grandeur to Hong Kong action maestro John Woo of "Face/Off" fame as much as traditional cowboy classics like Clint Eastwood's "The Outlaw Josey Wales." While this blatantly romanticized account of the notorious Jesse James-Cole Younger gang lacks the ... Read More
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Being delivered to Australia I was surprised and happy to receive it early. Product in perfect condition. No complaints here !
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Product Description:
At the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James ride home to Missouri to be on their ranch with their mother. As a railroad moves through buying up as much land as possible, burning folks out if need be, the James-Younger gang of outlaws become determined to use any means to protect their land and the land of their townsfolk and friends.
Genre: Westerns
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 3-FEB-2004
Media Type: DVD
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If you're looking for a showcase for emerging Hollywood talent, American Outlaws is just the ticket. Its handsome young stars, playing Jesse and Frank James and gang, crack wise as if they were in a contemporary high school locker room. Combining authentic costumes and sets with stunt work befitting a Jackie Chan comedy, accompanied by an "Old West" soundtrack that's anything but old and only marginally Western, the film yields a few enjoyable highlights. Seasoned genre buffs, however, will cringe at the movie's clash of visual qualities, as well as the dialogue, which, while not as heinous as that in Maverick, is on par with Young Guns in terms of non-period flavor. It's not exactly a testament to the enduring potential of the authentic Western that was realized by Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, made barely a decade before.
With all the light-hearted action and character interplay, it's hard to tell if director Les Mayfield (Flubber) is taking the material seriously, but this much is certain: the Jesse James here (played with effortless appeal by Tigerland newcomer Colin Farrell) and his brother Frank (Gabriel Macht) have almost no connection to historical fact. Nor do their fellow farm-raised gang members, the Younger brothers Cole (Scott Caan), Bob (Will McCormack), and Jim (Gregory Smith). (And Jesse's fiancée, played by Ali Larter, looks like she dropped in from a Gap commercial.) The gang's post-Civil War battle against a ruthless railroad baron (Harris Yulin) and his Pinkerton henchman (Timothy Dalton) seems arbitrary, irrational (since farmers typically welcomed railroads, not fought them), and riddled with clichés, turning the movie's bloodless shootouts into another opportunity for pretty-boy preening. --Jeff Shannon
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