3:10 to Yuma

     A 2007 remake of the original 1957 film of the same name. I've never seen the original, but, from watching the making of it and listening to the director and designer it sounds like they've changed a lot around, as to try and add to the storyline. The main story of the movie revolves around Dan Evans (Christian Bale) having to help haul a prisoner named Ben Wade (Russell Crowe), to get money to pay off railroad from taking his land. Their destination is Contention and putting Wade on the 3:10 prison train to Yuma. Following them along their journey is Wade's second-in-command Charlie Prince (Ben Foster), which will finally catch up to them for the final showdown in Contention.
     Their journey will take them through shoot-out with Indians to people that have grudges with Wade from the past. I've never been a real fan of Westerns, but, something that I noticed about Westerns being made nowadays is that they don't have the same feel as the old ones. Just something about the old color and graininess of the old time westerns gives it that dirty west feel. I think Bale and Crowe's performances were alright, but, I think its Ben Foster and Logan Lerman (Who plays Dan Evans' son that follows them) are the ones that stand out in this film. It's a really simple story, but sometimes simpler is better as you can enjoy the film and not have to worry about being lost in the storyline.

     The movie overall was alright, but, it felt like it was more of a modern day action movie trying to hide itself as a western. That being said it is nice to see a western, as its not a genre that doesn't get a lot of attention now a days. Watching the extras was almost more interesting than the movie, watching them having to build an old west town from scratch and learning about how few places provide trains for movies and what went through to get the train to the filming location. Also watching them bring in truckloads of dirt to cover up the massive snow fall that happened before filming ended, was pretty impressive. For such a simple story and being a western it was a decent movie to watch and did its job and entertained me.