Sunday, July 27, 2008

I'm a Howard Hawks man.

Rio Bravo - 7.5/10. As the story goes, Howard Hawks made this as a response to 'High Noon' and I like it to that end. Rather than asking innocent people to take up arms, the sheriff refuses to let any amateurs die doing his job. To the other end, 'High Noon' made better use of the tension. The story in both is a waiting game, but this one gets lost in the very wonderful and very fun personalities of the characters and everything that makes Howard Hawks movies great that it forgets there's a bad guy and the movie simply ends.

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