I do not know if it could be considered a good film. maybe, a correct one. because it has many virtues who define a beautiful storytelling, smart trip across delicate themes, the meet with real admirable actors - Miriam Colon is an example, the great performance of Lucas Black. a western who preserves a special air. not always credible, not always coherent, but giving that beauty who determine you see it again. for a specific scene, for a specific actress/actor or , maybe, for the flavor of a state of soul. so, a film full with virtues. this is all !

No, this did not have a "made for TV" movie ending. It did not tie everything up in a neat little package. It was a superb piece of film making. It felt real, and you cannot say that about many movies.There was a line in the movie, something like "it is not about whether it is right". The movie is all about the characters discovering that -- some would say "growing up". Everyone wants to stand up for what is right, all the time. The reality of life is that you have to pick your fights. I suspect those that did not like this film, did not want to hear that message.The photography was superb. Matt Damon looked like he grew up riding horses (I did). Yes, sometimes there was more Texas twang than others, but it was irrelevant. What mattered was that he made you believe his character. I do not think there was one weak portrayal in the whole film. The direction and all of the actors deserve credit for a real gem of a movie.

A simple but effective film though the content is more folkloric than really deep and emotional. A simple ordinary boy from Texas decide to go to Mexico with his buddy, friend, or whatever to have some adventure, to sow their wild oats as the English used to say in Byron's times.On their way they meet with a young teenager who is running away from his stepfather. The child is unruly and uncontrollable, typical of a stepson manhandled or maybe even sexually abused. He goes his own way but he will bring them back into his own way soon enough. One of the two young men, both are working on a Mexican ranch, is noticed by the boss and he is encouraged into breaking mustangs and choosing breeding horses. But he falls in love with the daughter of that boss.The young man is told to stay away because the girl has to keep her honor, which is both virginity and reputation. No rumors must run about her. But she is a real temptress and he falls into the trap. Then hell opens its gates wide and swallows the two young men and they can meet the boy there waiting for his end, having been tortured and to be eventually shot somewhere in a desert or nearly.The two young men will be sent to the penitentiary and there you pay hefty sums or you die. Of the two the one who did not mess around with family girls will manage to go back home when the two are liberated thanks to some pull and money paid in the back of the system by the aunt of the girl who was seduced.The seducer or rather seduced young man will stay behind to recuperate their horses and he will after some dire difficulties and even more duress. But he won't recuperate the girl. So he goes back home with the horses and he goes to a judge as soon as he arrives in Texas to sort out his situation and the judge will be a fatherly understanding man and our young man will be able to ho back, first to his buddy's to bring his horse back and then … That's a simple line but the film is well built and there is no real suspense just the witnessing of hard life, the way it is when we decide to take some back roads. The details are the most interesting elements of this story and the details you don't have because I did not give them to you.Entertaining and slightly empathetic, but this world disappeared a long time ago, in fact at least fifty years ago if not sixty. But that's what westerns and country music are when American made, not Italian spaghettied: nostalgic of a world vanishing so fast you can't even see its red back lights any more.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

It's not "True Grit" but it has its own purpose that deserves far better ratings than some give it. Some people tend to take their "mood of the day" and enlist it in their otherwise bland perception. This movie deserves more. It's not high excitement, and action adventure, but its noteworthy.A simple story of three young riders that pursue a goal to travel to Mexico to take stock of a situation concerning legitimate horse trading and breeding, and how the ethnic differences and history divide and interrupt otherwise normal life sometimes to inevitable consequences.Tragedy, sickened personalities and lack of justice involve the audience into what one can't help but be pure genuine interest in the plot and storyline.Dull to some, but life wayn't chuck full of lightnin' fast draws and gun playin' nor overwrought with nothing other than second by second action scenes but more of an intrigue in personalty, honorable characterizations and simplicity of human nature and sometimes it's flaws fighting itself for virtuosity performed and carved out of the countryside between Mexico and the U.S.The eventual climax of the movie should leave the viewer with a satisfaction for watching a movie that didn't waste your time.