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The Horse Whisperer Reviews
The supporting cast is as good as it gets. However, like The Electric Horseman, this movie explains why God created Robert Redford.
A Deep Cut Redford Classic. Editing & Pacing aren't bad. It has problems with a bloated runtime and jumping between the romance of the Mom and the actual overcoming of grief and fear of Grace. They feel like almost two seperate stories. It bounces quite a bit between the two. Another issue is scenes can drag on a bit too long as well. This is a really pretty film to look at and very easygoing but it needs to speed up at times. It feels like Redford is self indulging a bit too much here. Easily this could just cut some slow scenes and lose 20-30 minutes. And if you cut the Mom's romance subplot your talking almost an hour you could lose easily. But what saves this here is the solid execution of everything else. The direction is good, the performances are great, the setting is beautiful and the love it has for the country, horses, and the people/way of life is infectious. As they fall in love with the country way of life we do too. It's infectious and a testament to the chemistry and direction. There's also a clear underlying message of love for animal well being as well but that supirsingly never feels on the nose. It has a hallmark channel movie feel to it but with more layered characters, better direction, and production. Maybe a hint of Always too as this can get very sentimental at times too. But the characters are all likeable so and do great jobs across the board so it goes a long way. Anyone who is a fan of horses, the director, any actors in this, hallmark style flicks, or family movies should check this out.
My all time favourite movie. As a teenager and as an adult. Love the pace and how Redford takes the time to unfold the story to show all the complex emotions that come with trauma. All in the background of beautiful Montana.
Unappealing characters stand around doing very little for about 2 hours longer than you might have wished. It's hard to identify with any of them or care much about their cardboard problems. Skip this one.
One of my all time faves. Cinematography is beautiful and the characters are ever changing and growing. A movie for everyone!
It's got Robert Redford, Montana mountains and vales, Robert Redford. Scarlet Johanssen as a beautiful young woman beginning to bloom. Did I mention Redford? This movie is much better than the book...slimmed down making it smoother. In Utah Redford had his own ranch by the upper Provo River...called Sundance....original site of Sundance Film Festival...until he moved it to a much larger venue: Park City and Deer Valley Ski Resort.
Quite possibly the worst, most dreary and depressing film i've ever watched, we drew straws to see who would stay awake long enough to see the end.
surprisingly dull for so much talent.
Story/Screenplay: (4/5) A well written drama with multiple, closely related threads running in parallel. It's a bittersweet story, concluding a bit on a down note. Duration/Tempo: (3.5/5) At 2 hours and 49 minutes, it's a very, very long movie that felt shorter, but still long. However, it was engrossing and at no point boring. Cast & Crew: (5/5) Incredible cast: Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Dianne Wiest, and Chris Cooper. All this and we also get a young Scarlett Johansson, in one of her earliest roles, who manages to hold her own against her more experienced costars. Summary: (4/5) The story was good, the cast was excellent, and the film felt shorter than it was. A thumbs up.
One of the best movies I have seen. Loved it when I first saw it a still love it today!
They don't make films like this anymore and that's the true shame here. This is a long sweeping movie with character and heart. Redford shadows the leading role, quite like he did with Out of Africa with Streep. I was surprised how carefully this film was constructed and it disappoints me that films of this genre are falling away from cinema. Beautiful DOP work and Redford behind the camera are amazing to watch. Great cast and storyline that doesn't drag, considering the running time. 04/05/2019
I remember seeing this in theatres as a little kid! Long movie but enjoyable!
a poignant tale in context of the methodology.. The Horse Whisperer The Horse Whisperer is a character driven drama about an unknown personality that enters into a dysfunctional family at a point of crisis to save their horse and ends up saving the family. Not only is the premise familiar but is rubbed plenty of times by the makers in every possible angle which then would require this tale to visit newer territories which it fails to do so. Addition to that, ticking for around 170 minutes the makers are milking their way down in and chews too much for the audience to enjoy its appetite. The narrative is daft at certain point with sloppy writing and loosely edited final cut that is more questionable than ever. The subplots are cheesy and brimmed with seen-this-seen-that conflicts with one dimensional side characters that extracts the heat from the soul. It is short on technical aspects like background score, sound department and camera work that every now and then goes into slow motion that isn't justified at all in here. With beautiful cinematography, stunning visuals, live locations and bright colors, it is utterly pleasing for the western genre fans in each frame. The adaptation could have been a lot better and a lot shorter for the audience can predict and finds themselves waiting for the makers to attain a closure. Redford's world seems self-obsessed a lot for it to offer room to any of the characters to factor in effectively. Redford is enjoying a bit much to breed sincerity with Johansson's amateur performance and Neil's undercooked one, Thomas is the only one that stands alone delivering through each frame. Visually aesthetic and manipulative emotions that it draws out from the audience are the only high points of this sinking feature. The Horse Whisperer is a poignant tale in context of the methodology that it approaches to and not its ideology.
It was ok. A bit too long. Didn't jerk teh tears in the way it had been described to me.
I learned to tame a wild mustang through touch in the ring with Monty Roberts. This film is based on Monty. The scene where he forces the horse to submit is a lie. Monty would never and has never done such a thing (that from the horses mouth). Monty spent years as a youngster observing wild mustangs behavior in the wild. He is an amazing human and this film does not do justice to the gift of whispering. I would have thought that Mr. Redford would have done justice...great disappointment.
a bad cut in the middle of the movie