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But recognizing that contemporary viewers might be out of touch with the bedrock simplicity and strength of the genre-not to mention its code of honor-Mangold has supplied both Evans and Wade with a plethora of backstory and 'motivations.' At the overblown action climax, the crossfire of personal agendas is almost as frenetic as the copious gunplay.

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To Mangold's credit, his movie doesn't traffic in facile irony or postmodern detachment it aims to be a straight-up Western and deliver the excitement and charisma the genre's fans are starved for. All of the above applies in the new 3:10, but it takes a lot more huffing and puffing to get Wade (Russell Crowe this time) and Evans (Christian Bale) into position for the showdown. That the outlaw has come to admire his captor intriguingly complicates the suspense.

Wade, knowing that his gang will be along at any moment to spring him, works at persuading the ultimately lone deputy to accept a bribe, turn his back on 'duty,' and go home safe and rich to his family. That classic Western spun a tale of captured outlaw Ben Wade (Glenn Ford)-deadly but disarmingly affable-and the small-time rancher and family man, Dan Evans (Van Heflin), desperate enough to accept the job of helping escort the badman to Yuma prison. Summary: Here's hoping James Mangold's big, raucous, and ultrabloody remake of 3:10 to Yuma leads some moviegoers to check out Delmer Daves's beautifully lean, half-century-old original.

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