Michael John Petty is a Senior Features Writer for Collider who writes mostly about Westerns but also loves superheroes and supernatural thrillers.
The Big Picture At some point or another, it seems that just about every big name in Hollywood ends up making a Western. Some are bad, of course, but sometimes a compelling and thematic horse opera shows up that makes you think a little deeper about the genre. In the case of Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan, two actors well known for their roles in the action genre, that Western is Seraphim Falls, a revisionist Western directed by David Von Ancken that you definitely shouldn't sleep on.
Since this film takes place in the years following the American Civil War, it's clear that this is some Confederate vs Union vendetta, and Gideon, who fought for the North, has attempted to escape westward to outrun the conflict. Unfortunately for him, it didn't work.
Related This Western Anthology Series Was One of the First on Network Television The Western was revolutionary in more ways than one. The overdrawn chase between Gideon and Carver gives us adequate time to meditate on every interaction, great and small, that these men have with the world around them. We see that Gideon is running from something, not just Carver, and that the horrors of war repentantly haunt him.
Related Denzel Washington Has the Action Legacy Liam Neeson Wanted Unlike Neeson, Washington chooses quality over quantity. Unlike a film such as, say, Appaloosa, which was released two years later and maintained its traditionalist themes throughout, Seraphim Falls reveals at the end of its second act that Carver might not be the villain we think he is.
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