Silverado

Name: Silverado
Genre: Action, Western
Released: July 10, 1985
Duration: 133 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Kevin Costner, Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn

1985

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Columbia Pictures | Release Date: July 10, 1985

Starring: Kevin Costner, Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn

Summary: Get ready for some horse-ridin', gun-totin', whiskey-drinkin' fun! Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day, butGet ready for some horse-ridin', gun-totin', whiskey-drinkin' fun! Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day, but first they have to break each other out of jail, and learn who their real friends are. (Sony Pictures)… Expand

Director: Lawrence Kasdan

Genre(s): Action, Western

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 133 min

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Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert

This movie is more sophisticated and complicated than the Westerns of my childhood, and it is certainly better looking and better acted. Read full review

Variety - Staff (Not Credited)

Rather than relying on legendary heroes of Westerns past, writer-director Lawrence Kasdan with his brother Mark have used their special talent to create a slew of human scale characters against a dramatic backdrop borrowing from all the conventions of the genre. Read full review

The New York Times - Janet Maslin

Silverado is sufficiently modern to make its landscapes bigger, its people smaller and its moral polarities less powerfully distinct than those of simpler, more starkly beautiful westerns gone by. Read full review

San Francisco Chronicle - Peter Stack

As Westerns go, Silverado delivers elaborate gun-fighting scenes, legions of galloping horses, stampeding cattle, a box canyon, covered wagons, tons of creaking leather and even a High Noonish duel. How it manages to run the gamut of cowboy movie elements without getting smart-alecky is intriguing. But on the important issues, like real character development, Silverado flakes apart. [10 Jul 1985, p.52]

Boston Globe - Jay Carr

Silverado plays like a big-budget regurgitation of old Westerns. Whatkeeps it going is the generosity that flows between Kasdan and his actors. It's got benevolent energies, but not the more primal kind needed to renew the standard Western images and archetypes. [10 Jul 1985, p.26]

Chicago Tribune - Gene Siskel

Silverado is a completely successful physical attempt at reviving the western, but its script would need a complete rewrite for it to become more than just a small step in a full-scale western revival. [10 Jul 1985, p.5]

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - Jay Scott

The manipulative Star Wars-style score is the only novelty on tap in Silverado, which has a plot too drearily complicated and arid to summarize and an attitude almost unbearable in its dryly smirky assurance that it knows what you want from a Western, which is to say, action that never quits, emotion that's never felt, characters that are never real and situations that are never sensible. [10 Jul 1985, p.S7]

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Compi24

Apr 16, 2018

Co-writer and director Lawrence Kasdan's "Silverado" might be the most overlooked and unsung western I've seen thus far in my film-watching tenure. This is a rip-roaring, well-structured, and brilliantly textured portrait of an era long past, with all of the iconic genre staples present andCo-writer and director Lawrence Kasdan's "Silverado" might be the most overlooked and unsung western I've seen thus far in my film-watching tenure. This is a rip-roaring, well-structured, and brilliantly textured portrait of an era long past, with all of the iconic genre staples present and accounted for. The scheming land barons, the penitent gunslingers looking to escape their pasts, the two-timing lawmen - they're all here and presented with charm. But these gunfights are what you came here for. There's at least two or three per act and they're all expertly choreographed. The performances are all well-tailored and aside for a couple of useless characters here and there, the overall product is just the same - solid and entertaining as all get-out.… Expand

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tkc88

Apr 15, 2017

A solid enough film, however it lets itself down by being too light to be taken seriously as a great Western film. The casting of Kevin Klein, Kevin Costner and Danny Glover in particular prevent this from being considered on part with the greats of the genre.

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