Oct 19, 2025 07:10 AM
(This post was last modified: Oct 19, 2025 04:57 PM by C C.)
The second film of Taylor Sheridan's so-called "American Frontier Trilogy", after Sicario. Released in 2016, 97% ranking, and likewise got nominated for a screenplay award. Scottish director (David Mackenzie).
Lots of sprawling, West Texas emptiness that reminds you that the bulk of the state's population is crowded into the eastern part (like the US itself, as a whole). But what you're actually viewing is New Mexico.
Arguably reminiscent of several classic "getaway bank robbery" and neo-Western films of the 1970s, rolled up into one. Given that he co-starred in "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" and "Rancho Deluxe" well over four decades prior, a tad fitting that Jeff Bridges was the old man in this one.
Though Bridge's Texas Ranger buddy (à la Tonto?) eventually encounters the more literal Dead Indian trope in cinema, Gil Birmingham later followed Sheridan to "Yellowstone" to play the tribal chairman.
https://youtu.be/JQoqsKoJVDw
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/JQoqsKoJVDw
Lots of sprawling, West Texas emptiness that reminds you that the bulk of the state's population is crowded into the eastern part (like the US itself, as a whole). But what you're actually viewing is New Mexico.
Arguably reminiscent of several classic "getaway bank robbery" and neo-Western films of the 1970s, rolled up into one. Given that he co-starred in "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" and "Rancho Deluxe" well over four decades prior, a tad fitting that Jeff Bridges was the old man in this one.
Though Bridge's Texas Ranger buddy (à la Tonto?) eventually encounters the more literal Dead Indian trope in cinema, Gil Birmingham later followed Sheridan to "Yellowstone" to play the tribal chairman.
https://youtu.be/JQoqsKoJVDw