Long Riders [Blu-ray] Reviews

Ambiance goes a long way to hide the otherwise tiny flaws inherent in Walter Hill’s hypnotic western The Long Riders. With meticulous attention to detail both before and behind the camera, a first-rate cast, and a real-life story so interesting that it begs to rival the best fiction, The Long Riders constitutes one of the high water marks for the genre between the end of the traditional era for westerns and the soon-to-emerge new era begun by Dances With Wolves. It’s a story that’s been told many times in the movies but never with quite so much seeming verisimilitude or enacted by real-life brothers playing real-life brothers. That’s quite a novel touch that distinguishes an already distinguished endeavor. 

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