3:10 to Yuma

I first heard about this film from a friend who saw it and thought that it was absolutely amazing, and after hearing a brief summery of it I thought it sounded really good, and Robert Ebert strongly agrees in his Review
The movie is directed by James Mangold who has directed the movies “Walk the Line” “Heavy” and “Girl Interrupted.” Doing a film like "3:10 to Yuma" is a little out of style for him “but the movie itself proves he had a good reason for choosing it.”
A man named Dan Evens, played by Christian Bale moves to Arizona after losing his leg in a war to try and start his life over as a rancher. He finds a lot of hard times doing this and ends up transporting a famous outlaw Ben Wade, played by Russell Crowe, to a train which will take him to his death.

Christian Bale plays not simply a noble hero, but a man who has avoided such
risks as he now takes and is almost at a loss to explain why he is bringing a
killer to justice, except that having been mistreated and feeling unable to
provide for his family, he is fed up and here he takes his stand.

This movie seems like it's about good verses evil, right verses wrong in a way that is refreshing and encouraging to see.

It restores the wounded heart of the Western and rescues it from the morass of
pointless violence. The Western in its glory days was often a morality play, a
story about humanist values penetrating the lawless anarchy of the frontier.

Most western today are more about violence then doing what is morally right, although some are, but that’s something that I really miss in today’s world where violence and sex dominate action movies.

In hard times, Americans have often turned to the Western to reset their
compasses. In very hard times, it takes a very good western.

And Robert Ebert thinks that this is a very good western. And I really like movies that do this, and I really like action movies and it seems like this movie does both.
This movie seems goes deeper than violence with acting and dialog. It sounds like Dan and his captive have deep conversation.

[Wade] draws, reads, philosophizes, and is incomparably smarter than the
scum in his gang. Having spent untold time living on the run with them, he may
actually find it refreshing to spend time with Dan, even as his captive.

Wade is not your typical Western gang leader. He is a deep person that likes more that just booze, girls and killing. That’s rare to see and I think that it’s great that we are able to see that even though he’s a gang leader he still has a real intellectual side.

Locked in the hotel room, surrounded by death for one or the other, the two men
begin to talk. Without revealing anything of the plot, let me speculate that
each senses he has found the first man he has met in years who is his equal in
conversation. Crowe and Bale play this dialogue so precisely that it never
reveals itself for what it really is, a testing of mutual insight. One trial of
a great actor is the ability to let dialogue do its work invisibly…Too many
actors are like the guy who laughs at his own joke and then tells it to you
again.

That part of the review alone makes me want to see this Western. It’s not that often that you get to see deep into the characters through such great dialog in a Western. I think it will make the movie more realistic, allowing us to get to know them more than in movies where there is just pointless violence.

I really want to see this Movie; it has the Action of a Western, follows a deep moral compass, and shows deep insight through the great acting in meaningful conversation where the main characters truly connect.