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Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and his longtime friend and partner Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) travel the 1880s Southwest, bringing justice to lawless towns desperate enough to hire them. In the mining town of Appaloosa, malevolent rancher Randall Bragg and his cronies ride roughshod over the frightened citizens. As Cole and Hitch work to end Bragg's reign of terror, an unconventional widow (Renee Zellweger) arrives, complicating the job and threatening their bond.
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No sound lightens a moviegoer's heart more than pounding hoofbeats before the opening credits. A Western is about to begin, and, if everything goes right, nothing can be better than that.
"Appaloosa," the latest film to start with that familiar sound, does much right, but not everything. Based on a novel by Robert B. Parker, it tells the story of how a woman comes between two men in the New Mexico territory of 1882. But the tale's virtues are undercut by the way that critical female role has been handled. (Full review)