Top notch western. Young Ben fosters a great baddy. He's gonna be big that boy.

A thinking man's western, albeit with a few dumbed down action scenes to pander to a more mainstream movie going audience. Said scenes did not ruin the film for me, though it has for others. Bale and Crowe both give one of their better performances h... (read more) A thinking man's western, albeit with a few dumbed down action scenes to pander to a more mainstream movie going audience. Said scenes did not ruin the film for me, though it has for others. Bale and Crowe both give one of their better performances here, and gelled nicely in their scenes. Ben Foster is surprisingly well cast and manages to come across as slightly unhinged, smart, and ultimately intimidating as the fiercely loyal wild dog of Wade's (Crowe) gang, who relentlessly pursues Wade's captors.

The highlights of the film were the cinematography (the film looked outright stunning in places on blu-ray), the authenticity of locations, costume and props, and most of all the dialogue between Crowe and Bale's charachters as they begin to lean more about each other and form a begrudged mutual respect.

And the action fan in me quite enjoyed the the change of pace in some of the less realistic and slightly over the top gunfights, they were damn entertaining!

A well-acted and surprisingly deep Western. In many way, this movie reminded me of my favorite film "Heat". The main story is a highly-polished but generic Western. What makes it interesting is how the two main characters interact and evolve.

I would never have picked this movie, but Courtney had it playing and I watched... I enjoyed the cat and mouse play. I think Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are exceptional actors that really fall into their characters. Very enjoyable

The acting is incredible; Russell Crowe and Christian Bale are awesome.

New Zealand's Russell Crowe and Britain's Christian Bale, donning the hats and accents to play outlaw and escort with grizzled assurance.

The editing is tense and there's mucho splatter but the climax is unforgivable for reasons I can't spell out -- and owes something to a recent picture I can't name.

3:10 to Yuma is a drama well worth the journey.

[Director] Mangold succeeds on his own terms, largely because the actors he's working with here, Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, so comfortably inhabit the movie, and the genre that cradles it.

James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma restores the wounded heart of the Western and rescues it from the morass of pointless violence.