Three sentence movie reviews–The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford


A slow meander of a movie, by which I mean I probably would have been bored if I wasn’t knitting. Brad Pitt plays a great, slightly unhinged Jesse James, but I was watching it for Casey Affleck, who not only believably plays a 20 year old, but also manages to perfectly convey the changeover from hero worship to ultimate betrayal. This movie is what my mother would call “old-fashioned” which I translate to “good acting, kinda slow.”

Bechdel score: Two women: nope.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2007/assassination_of_jesse_james_by_the_coward_robert_ford.html