“Isn’t it time someone did a serious cost-benefit analysis on the filmmaking partnership of Russell Crowe and director Ridley Scott?

"…resembles a post-apocalyptic Mob movie done by Robert Altman."

“…humanizes, though never legitimizes, our 43rd president.

"…a biography picture of the patronizing saint variety."

"…thinks it’s an inspirational, based-on-fact, little-man-beats-the-system drama, when in fact it is one of the more depressing pictures I’ve seen in quite some time."

Ed Harris directs himself and Viggo Mortensen in a Western that is so old-fashioned it even carries a troubling dose of old-fashioned sexism. The two male stars have a nice, often wordless rapport as two gunmen and longtime friends who are hired by the residents of Appaloosa to protect them from a sadistic outlaw (Jeremy

“… Newman turns Hud into a tarnished golden boy, cruel yet irresistible to watch.”

“Lon Chaney’s Quasimodo is one of early cinema’s most forlorn and tragic movie monsters, on par with King Kong and Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s creation.

“…as discomfiting as you’ve heard, yet there is one moment near the end that nearly saves it.

"Moments of real trauma are interrupted with sitcom wackiness, all of it connected by a terribly hokey musical score."