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"&lt;p&gt;Back in the Pleistocene Era (1957), Elmore Leonard&amp;apos;s short story  &lt;em&gt;3:10 to Yuma&lt;/em&gt;, became a tense, tight &lt;em&gt;High Noon&lt;/em&gt; knockoff of a Western about a rancher (Van Heflin) trying to get an outlaw (Glenn Ford) on a train to Yuma prison so he could collect a reward and pay his debts. By the end  &amp;#x2014; it&amp;apos;s a three-day trip through Apache territory &amp;#x2014; no one would help the poor bastard.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;The same plotlines run through this flashily entertaining remake from &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/walk-the-line-20051118\"&gt;Walk the Line&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; director James Mangold, who already updated the material in 1997&amp;apos;s &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/cop-land-19970815\"&gt;Cop Land&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. The story&amp;apos;s moral code clearly speaks to Mangold, and he&amp;apos;s put two top-notch actors in the saddle. Christian Bale is the anti-American Psycho as rancher and family man Dan Evans, and a dynamite Russell Crowe practically licks his lips as charm-boy villain Ben Wade. Despite kicking up the violence quotient (a Gatling gun figures in a coach robbery) and freighting Freud into the subtext (these cowboys sure are Chatty Cathys), Mangold digs in his spurs as Dan takes on Wade&amp;apos;s gang. Ben Foster is a nutso wonder as a killer with a man-crush on boss Wade, and shout-outs to Peter Fonda as a bounty hunter and Logan Lerman as Dan&amp;apos;s needling teen son. Maybe this redo didn&amp;apos;t need so many bells and whistles, but Mangold brings it home.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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