While few clients of the Coen brothers film, and despite my distaste for Most of their films, including the previous A serious man, I was curious about their first western. The story takes place in 1870, just after the Civil War, the final frontier of the American West. Mattie Ross, a young girl of 14 years, wants to avenge the death of his father. To find the murderer, she then called the Marshall Cogburn stubborn and an original Texas Ranger. This is the remake of a film released in 1969, Henry Hathaway, $ 100 for a sheriff , with John Wayne in the lead role (taken today by Jeff Bridges), who won for his performance the first and only Oscar of his long career. Bridges reprises the role of Wayne at the same age: 61 pins behind the tie and so many children without fathers around the country. The Coen brothers defended themselves however they have signed a pure remake of Hathaway and prefer to say they have made a new adaptation of the novel by Charles Portis. They anyway proudly and courageously signed their certificate of originality by placing the banner on the right eye of Jeff Bridges as he covered the left eye of John Wayne in the original film. We will not upset them. The film does not really want to know more about its origins. It must be said that history does not dream. But the trouble is that the side of the stage there is nothing to say either. The classical, or academic interest without achieving the Coen would fit almost in the path of Henry Hathaway, who was somehow a poor cousin of John Ford, still probably more talented than our contemporary Siamese . Hathaway has done more than sixty films between 1932 and 1974, sometimes combining two to four goals in the same year. To make a film a year of no importance, the Coens in turn become makers uninspired. 
Nothing to say about the staging so transparent. Certainly the players are nice to follow even if they embody stereotypes of poor, despite the regret that we can predict that the little Hailee Steinfeld Hilary Swank will be tomorrow, but it definitely does not. Because there is not much to say no more of this story ultra-conventional, as exemplified by intentionally stereotypical characters that the film is forty minutes to introduce ourselves so that we know absolutely by heart before they discover them in the image, only because of what the secondary characters tell us. No desire to interpret the story, tell the duality of character Cogburn, boorish alcoholic who is both a hero and a failure, a cold-blooded killer without scruples or speech and a surrogate father with a heart, or talk about this heroine who is a gifted child eager for vengeance that will punish the fate of this still dominant low willingness to punishment; Nor need lie on the hilarious tale of the end of an era and the demise of a certain kind of lonely cowboys spunky ...
In truth, beyond the issue of lack artistic or scriptwriting, one might wonder if the new Coen Brothers film, Jeff Bridges, finding it in their so-called best comedy The Big Lebowski would be a potacherie stuffed with black humor that is typical of Coen brothers Webster and Webster or if they were on the contrary, while reconnecting with Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men , reflexive filmmaking quick to ask a genre as old as the world and its state in 2011. Well they did not choose. They did a little of that, without shades or mix genres. It was therefore entitled to scenes of comedy who never laugh, juxtaposed to sequences most serious where frankly we are bored as well. The gags, like the characters, situations, events, brief as everything in the film are predictable, expected, and every step of the feature film unfolds as expected, not surprisingly, without finesse, without any degree of interest the viewer who watches this show sober. It goes from one end to the other two hours during which the film without grumbling but never be passionate. It is there in front of a Western dish already seen a hundred times and wondered what the purpose of such filmmakers as loved by the general public, what about them or their deep draft. Basically what's the point? I retain a scene, that of the hanged girl should go get his arm about ten meters above the ground. The final gag of this scene did not make me laugh, of course, but the image of the body hung so far above the ground is a stunning image and original. The rest is a western that has agreed to drop other than humor and no ambition other than a series of unnamed facilities.
In truth, beyond the issue of lack artistic or scriptwriting, one might wonder if the new Coen Brothers film, Jeff Bridges, finding it in their so-called best comedy The Big Lebowski would be a potacherie stuffed with black humor that is typical of Coen brothers Webster and Webster or if they were on the contrary, while reconnecting with Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men , reflexive filmmaking quick to ask a genre as old as the world and its state in 2011. Well they did not choose. They did a little of that, without shades or mix genres. It was therefore entitled to scenes of comedy who never laugh, juxtaposed to sequences most serious where frankly we are bored as well. The gags, like the characters, situations, events, brief as everything in the film are predictable, expected, and every step of the feature film unfolds as expected, not surprisingly, without finesse, without any degree of interest the viewer who watches this show sober. It goes from one end to the other two hours during which the film without grumbling but never be passionate. It is there in front of a Western dish already seen a hundred times and wondered what the purpose of such filmmakers as loved by the general public, what about them or their deep draft. Basically what's the point? I retain a scene, that of the hanged girl should go get his arm about ten meters above the ground. The final gag of this scene did not make me laugh, of course, but the image of the body hung so far above the ground is a stunning image and original. The rest is a western that has agreed to drop other than humor and no ambition other than a series of unnamed facilities.
See this movie at the cinema, previews to a packed house, I learned that sometimes it would be better to stay home. I should avoid going on the big screen these works of filmmakers admired a large audience, which goes to the multiplexes in a state of ecstasy, absolutely committed to the cause of filmmakers they admire religiously, motivated by a desire Unconditional laughter in this black comedy which they were told he was in any way compelling. Hear the room burst out laughing at this scene that this stale and mediocre heroin annoyed to share the bed of an old woman who snoring, or to such other sequence absolutely not intentional comedy that describes the anti-Indian racism of the time while a native was gagged before he had time to speak to the crowd came to see him hanging sequence ad excluding Indian film that traverses their territory become no man's land and their disappearance already a country where they were automatically relegated to the lowest trade stiffs, but before that last wave of violence which sliced fingers and a head shot ... Ah ah ah. Notice I almost envy, the ones who roar with laughter and piss at the least rotten joke. For my part I remained silent in front of a movie not really bad but damn disappointing.
Note: After writing this review, I saw and criticized the original by Henry Hathaway: 100 Dollars for a sheriff , which I much appreciated.
True Grit Joel and Ethan Coen starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin and Bary Pepper (2011)
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