Starring: Ed Harris, Robert Knott
Director: Ed Harris
Category: Action & Adventure
Rated: R
In Marshal Virgil Cole and deputy Everett Hitch’s line of work, you shoot quick, you shoot clean, and you reload straightaway. No remorse. No looking back. No feelings. Feelings get you killed. Paired as rivals in “A History Of Violence”, Ed Harris (who also directs, produces and co-scripts) and Viggo Mortensen stand together as longtime friends and for-hire peacekeepers Cole and Hitch in this character-driven, bullet-hard Western based on Robert B. Parkers novel. As the woman who arrives in town with only a dollar and a keen sense of survival, Renee Zellweger adds feelings – those things that get you killed – to a quest to bring murderer Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) to justice. Blood will spill in the town called “Appaloosa”. (Publisher)
Summary of critic reviews:
Chicago Tribune: **1/2 (out of four)
New York Post: *** (out of four)
Rolling Stone: ***1/2 (out of four)
Overall: *** (out of four)
Tags: ed harris, jeremy irons, renee zellweger, viggo mortensen