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- 2007
- R
- Destination Films
- 1 h 55 m
- 2007
- R
- Destination Films
- 1 h 55 m
Summary An epic action thriller set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. (Icon Entertainment)
Directed By: David Von Ancken
Written By: Abby Everett Jaques, David Von Ancken
- 2007
- R
- Destination Films
- 1 h 55 m
- 2007
- R
- Destination Films
- 1 h 55 m
Seraphim Falls
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6.8
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Summary An epic action thriller set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. (Icon Entertainment)
Directed By: David Von Ancken
Written By: Abby Everett Jaques, David Von Ancken
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
38% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
62
57% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
38% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
You could say that Seraphim Falls, was no better than the typical Westerns of the 1950s and '60s--which I think underrates it. But those typical Westerns were pretty darn good, and so is Seraphim Falls.
This is an entertaining Western with some earnest ideas about forgiveness, redemption and the loss of innocents.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 30 User Ratings
6.8
60% Positive
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
30% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
10% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 30 User Ratings
6.8
60% Positive
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
30% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
10% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
"An epic action thriller set against the backdrop of the American Civil War." Truer words have never been written. The movie has a great cast and setting. The action is simply thrilling. The backstory is deeply emotional and will unravel as the movie progresses. It really deserves more praise than it gets and should have won an Oscar.
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Wow. I caught this movie by accident on late-night television, assuming it would be a mediocre dud appropriate for falling asleep to. But far from it. The acting is excellent and the imagery is positively mesmerizing. The recreation of the period is convincing, capturing the rawness and strangeness of the era and place. Using nature as a protagonist is hardly a new idea, but it is done so well that it's brilliant. A simple story executed impeccably. The ending, contrary to what some reviews have said, I found perfect. Extremely underrated movie.
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Neeson and Brosnan, along with the beautiful location photography from DP John Toll, keeps you involved even when Von Ancken's heavy-handed direction threatens to bog the proceedings down.
Neeson and Brosnan are supremely well-matched foils, though I do wish that the filmmaker, David Von Ancken, had lent his sparsely mythic tale just a twinge of something...new.
Seraphim Falls has decent pep in its step till the final 30 minutes, when it's finally revealed why Neeson's bounty hunter is after Brosnan's surly mountain man. The flashback finale and all that comes after (and keeps on comin') drags on so long even the leads look exhausted. Till then, it's yet another replay of "The Most Dangerous Game," and Brosnan and Neeson are game for it.
Before long, though, things take a turn from simplicity to sententiousness, then to surreal silliness, and finally to a mano-à-mano contest, on a parched desert floor, over which man gets the best close-ups.
A Western short on dialogue and long on pomposity, is little more than an extended chase scene down a snow-filled mountaintop to a desert floor.
C’est ce pauvre vieux Brosnan contraint de tourner dans des téléfilms foireux pour la gamelle… mais un vieux, faut bien que ça mange ! presque aussi vieux, le grand Neeson est venu le rejoindre dans cette galère parce qu’il faut bien bouffer ou du moins s’occuper comme on peut… quitte à faire de la merde.
Mais halte au « suspense »… insoutenable : ce western est à dormir debout et son scénar de nanar a été boulotté en quatrième vitesse par le réalisateur lui-même et un autre cave : bâclage à faire mourir de honte un stagiaire ou un étudiant défoncé au cannabis (pléonasme) !
Une pseudo-vengeance à la con qui se borne à une vague course-poursuite lénifiante qui n’en finit pas sans qu’on sache de quand ni de quoi il retourne au juste et de toute façon, on s’en branle… puisqu’on dort déjà ! tout est si convenu et déjà vu dans ce navet si ennuyeux et tellement navrant qu’on ne perd pas plus de temps à gâcher de l’avance rapide : balance-moi ça direct à la poubelle !
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Awards
World Stunt Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Gotham Awards
• 1 Nomination
