On the face of it, All the Pretty Horses should have everything going for it as a movie, taken from the novel by Cormac Mc Carthy acclaimed as one of the finest pieces of American writing of the past 20 years. The intuitive, up-&-coming actor-director Billy Bob Thornton, with a deep love of Mc Carthy's novels, takes the helm directing two hot young stars (Matt Damon, Penelope Cruz) & backed by some seasoned veterans (Sam Shepherd, Bruce Dern, Rub?n Blades et al) along with first-rate technical support. The plot seems tailor-made for landmark-movie status too. A downbeat, resonant tale that would have intrigued Sam Peckinpah, it tells of two young cowboys from post-WWII Texas, who cross the Rio Grande in search of the rugged adventurous life modern America can no longer offer them. & south of the border they find just what they're looking for--but in harsher, darker & far more brutal guise than they ever dreamt of. All the ingredients point towards the makings of a classic Western. Yet somehow they never quite jell. Powerfully photographed by Barry Markowitz, All the Pretty Horses looks unfailingly superb, & Ted Tally's screenplay draws on much of the novel's spare, trenchant dialogue. Thornton handles the action sequences with assurance, especially the marathon horse-breaking episode. But it all feels distanced, & never dark or bleak enough for Mc Carthy's savage vision. Maybe Damon is as yet too young & bland for his character's agonised trajectory. There were rumours of script problems, of scenes ruthlessly excised; Thornton claims that Miramax cut the film. Whatever the causes, the film is handsome to look at, absorbing to watch, but casts few shadows in the mind. ...

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