Before you go ballistic about this rotten review of what is otherwise a pretty good flick, I feel I needed to take a stand against the recent trends in the opening "credit reel" in films like this. There is NOTHING worse than credits that roll incessantly into 10 minutes or more of the film, rolling in the background over scenes meant to draw you in with the drama taking place - yet you are obliged to read another credit being splashed on the screen. I liken this to the inane "popups" we all get in the Internet world. Sorry, but when during the opening scenes in Part 2 showing Costner rescuing Matt Barr (Johnse Hatfield) from certain death, I don't give a damn who the Asst Asst Producer is. And this crap continued even deeper into the movie, so I hit the eject button. Where did these people learn how to make a movie? Do they understand the nature of continuity and how it is absolutely destroyed when credits continue unabated well into the dialogue, drama and action taking place? Awful.
And, I fully blame the director here for allowing this sort of thing to ruin the most critical part of the film - the first 10 minutes - the time to either draw in the audience or put them to sleep with endless advertising for people that might have had some vicarious connection to the movie or maybe a relative of the Key Grip guy. So, there it is - 1 star. Maybe if enough of us complain, this grotesque filmmaking trend will go to the cutting room floor where it belongs!
And, I fully blame the director here for allowing this sort of thing to ruin the most critical part of the film - the first 10 minutes - the time to either draw in the audience or put them to sleep with endless advertising for people that might have had some vicarious connection to the movie or maybe a relative of the Key Grip guy. So, there it is - 1 star. Maybe if enough of us complain, this grotesque filmmaking trend will go to the cutting room floor where it belongs!