It's the 40's. Jacob W. Ewing (Jason Robards) is a powerful rancher with help from his oil baron friends, his bank friends, and his deadly henchmen. He had pressured many of his poorer neighbors to sell to him. Ella Connors (Jane Fonda) is alone, a single woman, who owns a struggling cattle ranch. She gets help from cowboy Frank Athearn (James Caan) who survived an attack.
This is trying to be a new western epic. It has the vast and quiet landscape. It's a little too quiet which keeps the tension at a low boil. The story isn't that complicated. It's an artistic homage to the old genre. If it's this quiet, the story should be more interesting and different. There is some good cattle action but this is far from an action movie. It's a slow 2 hour western romance.
This is trying to be a new western epic. It has the vast and quiet landscape. It's a little too quiet which keeps the tension at a low boil. The story isn't that complicated. It's an artistic homage to the old genre. If it's this quiet, the story should be more interesting and different. There is some good cattle action but this is far from an action movie. It's a slow 2 hour western romance.