- Radio Times
- Review by:
- David Butcher
More fear and loathing in the backwoods as the epic feud between Appalachian clans burns deeper. It’s probably wrong, technically, to call this a western when it unfolds across the border between two eastern states, but it feels like a proper, dark western, with that sense of a mythic tragedy being played out between men whose faces are carved from saddle leather.
Kevin Costner is quietly superb. And Tom Berenger is loudly superb: when his character Jim mounts an early-morning raid to snatch their archenemy and yells at his house, “Randall McCoy! Your final day has dawned!” it makes you shudder. The whole thing is heavy and bloody and grim, but it sure makes you want to keep watching.
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4/5. Frank Philips and his posse barge their way into the church to apprehend several Hatfields, for whom he has arrest warrants - and Preacher Garrett's protestations earn him a bloodied lip. Jim Vance visits the mountain hideout of an ailing Anse, who decides that the only option is to send his men out to lay siege to the McCoy homestead - and kill Randall.
Cast and crew
Cast
- `Devil' Anse Hatfield
- Kevin Costner
- Randall McCoy
- Bill Paxton
- Johnse Hatfield
- Matt Barr
- Jim Vance
- Tom Berenger
- Judge Hatfield
- Powers Boothe
- Frank Philips
- Andrew Howard
- Nancy McCoy
- Jena Malone
- Levicy Hatfield
- Sarah Parish
- Roseanna McCoy
- Lindsay Pulsipher
- Perry Cline
- Ronan Vibert
- Selkirk McCoy
- Joe Absolom
- Ellison Mounts
- Noel Fisher
- Preacher Dyke Garrett
- Nick Dunning
Crew
- Director
- Kevin Reynolds
- Executive Producer
- Nancy Duboc
- Executive Producer
- Leslie Grief
- Executive Producer
- Dirk Hoogstra
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