Leighton Trent’s review published on Letterboxd:
""Tell me you like my hat."
"You're not wearing a hat."
"TELL ME YOU LIKE MY HAT, SHANNON!"
A massive, lavish 90's bullet point look at the Irish colonization of America in the late 1800's that does too much and too little all at once in telling its story... Sounds like almost every Ron Howard film actually.
While the depiction of the Land Run of 1893 is extraordinary in its scale and scope (the tactile qualities of these kinds of scenes are just gone from epic cinema now), the rest is by the Hollywood Book. Thank God Tom Cruise punches a horse and speaks with a uniquely terrible Irish brogue or I might have slumped off to sleep and veritably pissed off my wife as a result.
🎩 Hot Take 🎩
Low key one of the best of the best in the Cruise Running Canon. The only thing from this film that needs to be included in that career montage of his.
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