a5c7b9f00b A misfit bunch of friends come together to right the injustices which exist in a small town. In 1880, four men travel together to the city of Silverado. They come across many dangers before they finally engage the "bad guys" and bring peace and equality back to the city. Picture this, the year is 1985,western movies hadn't been popular with mainstream audiences for some time and we got not 1 but 2 decent western flicks,the first Pale Rider with Clint Eastwood a fore runner to his Oscar winning Unforgiven and Silverado. Silverado is a great piece of entertainment,with an all star cast,(who'd of thought John Cleese as an old west sheriff?)Kevin Cline is excellent as always,as is Danny Glover in one of the first westerns I've ever seen (except Blazing Saddles) to have an afro American as a main character,Kevin Costner is great in this film as is Scott Glenn and Brian Dennehy as always gives a great performance as the corrupt sheriff and former saddle mate of Kevin Klines character.If any movie deserves a sequel then it is this one,if the more undeserving Hollywood films can get one then why not this one? 20 years later and Silverado is thriving, Kevin Klines character has kept the peace when James Woods rides into town seeking revenge for his brothers death 20 years earlier it'd be great I like this movie a lot, but I'm not blind to its faults.<br/><br/>So let me point the main ones out before singing its praises.<br/><br/>One - it rambles, taking far too long to tell far too much story, much of which is of no consequences (there are so many stock western sequences in it that one gets the impression that, if Kasdan had thought he could have got away with it, there would have been a sequence with Indians attacking the circled wagons).<br/><br/>Two, Bruce Broughton's main theme is so ubiquitous that it finally becomes intrusive. You don't have to use the main theme for everything, y'know - you are allowed to have other sub-themes.<br/><br/>OK, the good stuff is headed up by the cast - this is a pretty stellar movie, and everyone in it is firing on all cylinders (Costner, do more like this, please). Next, even though much of the movie is concerned with recycling stock western situations, they are all done well. Finally, it is a handsome movie. Every frame looks beautiful.<br/><br/>So, worth a visit, but you might get irritated with the music, and your bum may get a bit numb towards the end. Silverado plays like a big-budget regurgitation of old Westerns. Whatkeeps it going is the generosity that flows between Kasdan and his actors. It's got benevolent energies, but not the more primal kind needed to renew the standard Western images and archetypes. [10 Jul 1985, p.26]
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