3:10 to Yuma

**** out of *****

I know - it's a big surprise that Your RHS liked a Western.

I was curious to see a New Zealander and a Welshman (don't you think Christian Bale runs like a Welshman?) slide into the iconic American roles of rancher and outlaw.

Good Lord were Russell Crowe and the aforementioned Welshman good in this film.

It's a rather familiar storyline in a Western - right takes on wrong, but exactly who is right and who is wrong is difficult to decipher at several points in the film. Crowe's outlaw goes back and forth from bandit with at least a spleen of gold to cold-hearted cutthroat who'd rather kill you than look at you, and Bale's rancher lets his motivation for 'doing good' drift back and forth from doing it for his kids to doing it for the money to doing it because its right.

The final act of the film I found particularly enjoyable, helping 3:10 to Yuma assume the title of "Best Western I've seen since Unforgiven." Excellent film. If you enjoy Westerns, you can not go wrong with 3:10 to Yuma.