As much as I keep hearing the mantra on here that the historical inaccuracies are forgiven if it is a good movie. Well, it is extremely inaccurate and it is not a good movie.If you would like to make a western and ignore the majority of the facts, go ahead, just change the names of the characters and there will be no problem. Maybe it is because I live in the area that this movie is located, but it makes me cringe when I see Jessie's home as a two story mansion in St. Joseph when I have toured the actual home many times and the house is no bigger than my living room. The Northfield raid was horrendous with more inaccuracies and contrived stunts that seemed to be added to the movie just because they were filmed.The acting was bad with Lowe looking like a glamor shots version of Jessie and Paxton alternating between playing Frank James as Frank James and Frank James as Doc Holiday. I give this movie a 5 just because it is a western and it could be a serviceable story if they would have just changed the names.All in all, there were many times I was just itching to reach up and grab my 'The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Bob Ford' DVD and throw it in, but I waited to watch all of 'Frank & Jessie'. If you have the choice, just watch 'Assassination' again (which was extremely accurate and well written and acted), and you'll be better for it.

I noticed that at least one commenter said that Bob Younger was depicted as deaf in the movie. He was supposed to be mute only, there was no mention of him being deaf. In the scene of Jesse being shot, it is clearly Bob Ford that shot him, but the narration, by Randy Travis, states that it was Charlie Ford. Obviously somebody wasn't paying attention. I can't believe that editing didn't catch it. Also, I don't know if any of the people who commented noticed it either. Another question that I have is why wasn't Martin Kove mentioned, even as uncredited? It was a small scene, but that face could not be mistaken for anybody else. Other than that, it was an enjoyable movie!!!

After having rented some other 90s Westerns,i got recommend this film.Having not heard of this film at all before watching it,i have to say i was really surprised about how good it was!. The plot: Four years after The Ameerican Cival War has ended.The famous outlaws Frank and Jesse James decied to re-form there old gang,after feeling the the "working man" is getting misused by some Chicago investors.What they don't know is the some of there gang members will plan things that are going to lead to one of there's blood getting spilt...View on the film: The cast:I have to say that while the supporting actors do a really good job,the main stand-outs are Rob Lowe and Bill Paxton as the James brothers.They both make you feel they really could be brothers!,with Lowe as the gun-slinging James and Paxton as his worn and tired out brother Frank. The Screenplay/Direction: The film was written and directed by Robert Boris.The clever thing Boris did was to start the film from a different place then where most Westerns start.In that,instead of having a feel-good ending,he makes the start feel-good,and then makes the ending into a bit of a dark feel(in a really good way.)Final view on the film: A really good and very under-rated recent Western.

Regarded as a paraphrase rather than a real docudrama, this film does reveal some truths amid the fiction. Whatever one may think about the exploits of the James brothers and their various gangs, one cannot but have grave misgivings about the proto-fascist activities of Alan Pinkerton as the paid lackey of the railroad and banking interests in the post Civil War era. This "great detective" hired by the U.S. government to organise espionage against the Confederacy has been reliably reported as "manufacturing" most of the information submitted to President Lincoln.The characters ascribed to the James brothers here is likely close to the truth, but why the contradictions of known facts. Their step-father Samuels was hanged by Pinkerton agents, not shot. Bob Ford, not Charlie, is the known assassin of Jesse James. This could have been a fine historical film, but some truth does emerge as initially said. The railroads and banks of the post Civil War era were proto-fascism at work in a very vicious form, and Alan Pinkerton was their "Himmler".