Starring: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Hailee Steinfeld
Rating: PG-13
Score: 3.75/4
3.75? Is that a real score? Maybe not, but I wanted to give it a 4 out of 4 but...
a) sometimes I couldn't understand what Jeff Bridges's character was saying
b) having never read the book or seen the 1969 version I didn't know what the ending was...I thought it was bum.
Fourteen year old Mattie is determined to hunt down and bring to justice the man who killed her father in cold blood. To do so she hires Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn, a U.S. Marshal who likes to drink and smoke. They are not the only ones looking for Tom Chaney, Texas Ranger LaBoeuf has been hunting Chaney and he joins in on the manhunt.
Unfortunately LaBoeuf and Cogburn's constant squabbling greatly impede the three, then they run into Lucky Ned's gang of outlaws. It turns out that Chaney has joined up with Ned, they now have a double mission: find Ned's gang thereby finding Chaney.
All the actors were brilliant in their roles, Hailee Steinfeld was brilliant as the tenacious Mattie. The PG-13 rating is not so much for language, but it is a Coen brothers film; one man gets his fingers cut off and Cogburn threatens to pull out LaBoeuf's tongue and rummages around in his bloody mouth.
I thought the ending was disappointing because it seemed a bit abrupt but overall I highly enjoyed the movie.
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