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The Jack Bull
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| Part No: | 6305504024 |
| Manufacturer: | Hbo Home Video |
| MFG Part: | 026359157424 |
| Customer Rating: | 4.5 / 5.0 |
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A Wyoming horse trader clashes with a fellow rancher after the rancher abuses two of his horses and their Crow Indian caretaker, Billy.
The Jack Bull was produced for and premiered on HBO, but it's easily the most respectable job that feature director John Badham (
Saturday Night Fever,
WarGames) has done in the past two decades. The title refers not to a piece of livestock but a metaphorical Jack Russell terrier that, once it's annoyed enough to close its jaws on something, will hang on to the point of death.
That would be Myrl Redding (John Cusack), a horse-breeder of limited means but a deeply entrenched sense of justice. His independence galls Henry Ballard (L.Q. Jones), the crusty land baron out to set his brand on most of the countryside. Ballard insults and cheats Redding several times over, and his men beat Redding's horse trainer and friend, an Indian (Rodney A. Grant). When Redding seeks redress from the law, its agents can't be bothered (the local magistrate is in Ballard's pocket). So Redding musters a vigilante army to enforce his own law.
Scratch this handsome but rigorously unromanticized Western--fully an hour passes without a shot being fired--and you find the classic Heinrich von Kleist book Michael Kohlhaas transposed to Wyoming Territory on the eve of statehood. The script--by the star-producer's dad, Dick Cusack--is sturdy and uncompromising, willing to engage the knotty ambiguities of embracing vigilantism even in a just cause. Badham's decision to treat the authorities (Scott Wilson, Jay O. Sanders, John Goodman) as period caricatures is regrettable. But John Cusack is solid as a figure of utterly matter-of-fact integrity. --Richard T. Jameson
| Great Western! | 2010-08-20 | 4 / 5 |
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This is a really great movie, and one that has slipped under the radar for most people. John Cusack and John Goodman's performances are flawless. I would highly recommend this movie for anyone that is a fan of Westerns or even the casual movie watcher. You won't be disappointed.
This is a keeper in the vein of "The Cowboys" and "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly." |
| John Cusack - rugged & sensitive | 2010-07-27 | 4 / 5 |
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| Ok...it's time to admit it..I will watch anything as long as John Cusack is starring. I hate the western/pioneer genre, and when I received this I thought "oh no, this will be a loser". Wrong! Mr. Cusack is wonderful as usual. |
| What a Western | 2010-04-22 | 5 / 5 |
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| A gem of a film from 1999 HBO Home Video, staring John Cusack, John Goodman and a host of recognizable faces. This DVD may be unfamiliar to many but if you're a fan of the Western it's a must see. John Cusack plays Myrl Redding, a proud man who has to put everything he stands for on the line in the quest for justice. In doing so a very high cost must be paid and lines are crossed. The acting is first rate by all involved especially John Goodman as a Judge who's ideals would be welcome in the courts of today. |
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| John Cusack in a western.... Holy cow! Really good story, well acted and directed, by none other than John's father. Who, by the way, did not want his son to play the roll in the film, but ultimately decided he could pull it off! |
| Great Film | 2010-02-08 | 5 / 5 |
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The Jack Bull film, with John Cusack is an excellent story. Cusack was at at the top of his abilities in this one. I liked that this did not give a Hollywood ending. It showed the blood our country was built on. This was based on real events a docudrama.
Great film, highly recommend. |
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