Alicia I love this movie so much

Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Wordiezett So much average

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Gunn You can tell a classic film the first time you see it and that was the case with Broken Trail. The same goes for Dances with Wolves, Lonesome Dove, E.T., Close Encounters, Braveheart, The Godfather series, The Star Wars series, Shawshank Redemption and so many others. This film has all the elements of a classic and more. Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church are terrific as usual as are the rest of the brilliant cast. As for those strange few reviewers on here who found the story dull and boring, what were you drinking or smoking? The story here, like Lonesome Dove, is engrossing, riveting, emotional, sometimes tense, sometimes heart-breaking; I mean, what more could one ask for in a story. The film also had stunningly visual scenery, a fine, servicing music score, authenticity galore in sets, costuming, art direction. Yes, they are making them like they used to. That old line no longer fits. If you think they aren't (making them like they used to) then you're going to the wrong films. I have to give 'props' to the young Asian girls in this film. They were completely charming and made us care about them. BTW, I don't know what 'props' means but I think it fits here. I highly recommend Broken Trail!

Neil Welch Duvall has always been great. I'm surprised (but not that surprised) to see the mountain of TV he did at the start of his career and how few films - To Kill A Mockingbird was his first one in 1962, with a couple of bit parts (including in Bullitt) before Ned Pepper in 1969 and M*A*S*H in 1970, which which was the one which lined up the Godfather in 1972. He has always brought an air of seriousness and gravitas to his performances, which makes even something like that trashy Schwarzenegger 6th Day seem better than it is. He was, as expected, excellent in this, although I felt that to some extent, his part was a retread of Boss Spearman in Open Range.Thomas Haden Church was also very good - he seems to select mostly quirky non-mainstream parts (although he was Sandman in Spider-Man 3). This part didn't do him many favours - fairly dour throughout, it didn't exactly generate vast quantities of audience sympathy. But it was still a solid picture of a man who was rough and ready, a little bitter in view of the cards life had dealt him, but essentially very moral.Greta Scacchi did well with not very much, and the Chinese girls were fine. I felt sorry for the bloke playing Gilpin - apart from a bit of fiddle playing, he hardly had anything to do apart from be a bit of mobile scenery and get shot at the end.The film had something of an odd story. Not a bad story, but an odd one. I quite like the way it unfolded at some leisure and, particularly, the way the relationship between Duvall and Church developed - not very much, and slowly. I was puzzled by the ending - the closing titles present what subsequently happened to the characters as if it was a true story, but I haven't been able to verify it on the net. And if it wasn't true, then there were some strange decisions as to how to end it - a story intended to satisfy an audience would have brought Duvall and Scacchi together, especially after all the pussyfooting around in the closing half hour or so. And, on a critical note, I felt that there were more than enough (loads more than enough) shots of backlit horses with foggy breath as seen through CSI: Miami orange filters.But overall, it held my attention for 3 hours and I was always interested in what happened next.

ma-cortes The film starts in 1898 , Ritter (Robert Duvall) a veteran cowboy sees declining the ending days of Wild West era and the transition to a new century . Ritter along with his estranged nephew Tom (Thomas Haden Church), and another cowboy (Scott Cooper) transport a herd of horses across the northern , when save five Chinese girls kidnapped by a villain (James Russo). As Ritter along with Tom Harte become the reluctant guardians of five abused and abandoned Chinese girls . The local madame (Rusty Schwimmer) sends a gunfighter (Chris Mulkey) to chase the girls for her own aims . Print Ritter and Harte's attempts to care for the Chinese are complicated by their responsibility to deliver a herd while avoiding a group of enemies intent on kidnapping the girls for their own objectives .This melancholic picture is acclaimed like one of the best Western TV of the last years with several prizes and various nominations for Gloden Globe . It's an excellent Western with adventures , noisy action , shootouts , breathtaking scenarios ; but also melancholy , friendship , unlovable camaraderie and emotionalism . The movie was shot in Calgary, Alberta, Canada location with marvellous outdoors . Sensitive and moving Western where cowboys must say goodbye to the lives they know and undergo an extraordinary and dangerous travel . Great acting for all casting with magnificent main roles by Duvall and Haden Church . Special mention to Greta Scacchi as an aging prostitute who falls in love . Gorgeous landscapes , reflecting wonderfully the wide open spaces, they are splendidly photographed by Lloyd Ahern II , Hill's usual cameraman . The movie follows the wake the last Television Westerns starred by Sam Elliot or Tom Selleck, such as ¨Monte Walsh¨, ¨Crossfire trail¨ and ¨Quigley Down Under¨. The motion picture was well directed by Walter Hill , a Western expert , such as he proved in ¨Geronimo¨, ¨Will Bill¨ and ¨Long riders¨. Rating : Better than average for the proficient film-making . It's a magnificent movie , and an unforgettable , unchallenged classic TV western.

Nazi_Fighter_David The film opens in Chinatown San Francisco, 1898 where we five exotic virgins from the Celestial Empire are bought by Captain Billy Fender (James Russo) to be sold as slaves and introduced into the brief and violent life of prostitution…Robert Duvall stars as "Print" Ritter, an old cowhand whose sister left a will inheriting all to him rather than to her own son, Tom Harte (Thomas Haden Church) who lives in John Day Country Oregon...Print ignores why she has done it, or why was crossed between the two, but his sister done it…Print got the idea to buy a team of tough, high-desert mustangs—three to eight years of age—to take them to Sheridan, Wyoming to sell to the British Empire; the money they'll earn will be to increase their capital… And on the shares, Print figures a 25-75 split on profits after expenses and loan repayment to the bank… From this point, Hill's Western becomes a road movie, with all kinds of odd characters, from ugly villains to a friendly musician, but the key to "Broken Trail" is that through a series of circumstances, fate has placed the five Chinese innocent girls in the hands of Tom and his uncle… But the reality is another… Their families sold them to that rat captain heading out to the mining camp, where Kate, an odious saloon owner, bought them from an associate in San Francisco…Our two cowboys save the girls' lives from rape and take them along on their journey…With great photography, gorgeous vistas, perilous ground, sensible brave girls, good and decidedly courageous men, great action when it is necessary, and a big confrontation at the climax of the movie, Hill's Western is a must see film for the fans of the genre