All the Pretty Horses (2000)

Date	User	Rating
Feb 14, 2020	vv238	29 _26th
I have watched worse movies than this but I wouldn't recommend this to anyone at all. It's a western for people who love drama but the drama itself is a bore. Matt Damon is his usual self but no one else really shows up. Not that it matters because no two pairing of characters have any chemistry anyway.
Mar 11, 2018	sopachuco13	70 _35th
All the Pretty Horses shows the ups and downs of one man's life and how he deals with the situations as they come. In true western fashion, there a good guys and bad guys. The honesty of each man shows which alignment he drifts towards and each man has some of the other side inside him. The relationship between Damon's character and Henry Thomas' character is strong and their acting is just as strong. Lucas Black does a fine job in this movie (because he accent doesn't get in the way).
Sep 16, 2015	lena_c	2 _17th
Some parts I really liked, other parts not so much. One of those film where I expected something completely different and the surprise of something else just didn't do it for me this time... *Okay
Mar 25, 2014	Haruhi	28 _18th
A disappointing adaption of a great book. It loses the book's essence, an essential part of "All the Pretty Horses."
Mar 13, 2014	glm01	51 _11th
50.500
Nov 11, 2013	DesertPunk	74 _57th
I think this is a fantastic example of a film completely neutered by studio intervention. It's a good thing McCarthy's story is as brilliant as it is, because even through the wonky cinematography, editing, and pacing, it still shines through.
Jun 02, 2012	glm	50 _15th
50.000
Jan 07, 2012	glumpy_99	67 _29th
Frustrating film starts off well, but squanders its many great, powerful moments (and wonderful wide-screen cinematography) on a narrative that fires off in all directions, and can't decide if it is a drama, romance, thriller, prison-movie, Butch Cassidy clone etc. Presumenably this narrative worked better on McCarthy's page, but the film still has something going for it; Thomas and Black are both excellent, and Damon is extraordinary.
Oct 13, 2010	Bojangles	55 _50th
Miramax fucked this movie up by trying to turn it into Titanic. There's a great movie buried somewhere in here but you have to squint to see it through the translucent coating of forced formula and choppy editing.
Jan 15, 2010	geohawk	20 _2nd
Surprisingly tedious drama that launched my personal Penelope Cruz hate parade (ended with Volver). Weird little bits of potential shine through here and there, but I found myself wishing I could watch "Horses Are Pretty" by IFC's 6-year-old "Christie" instead.
Aug 28, 2009	jclim00	5 _17th
Matt Damon seems terribly miscast in this movie. It moves from plot point to plot point without letting any of the scenes breathe. Crucial bits from the book like the aunt's motivation to protect her daughter are missing and the sheer brutality of the prison are downplayed in this adaptation. Really beautiful scenery and decent direction though.
Mar 12, 2009	TV+Film-Hub	10 _52nd
Convoluted and slow, but good ending.
Mar 10, 2009	HGK7	80 _65th
Good ending. Marriage to a woman made impossible by an oathe.
Jan 26, 2009	skiewulfy	45 _41st
The whole thing seemed sort of paint by numbers, illustrating all of the descriptions from the book, but carrying none of the subtext or depth. Not a bad movie, but a lot of high expectations based on the source material.
Mar 08, 2008	yilb	40 _25th
This is okay. The sharp moral character & characters are pretty interesting, the sweeping vistas are stunning yet the loose construction does little to propel the story. The romance is fair, i suppose it's really Matt's not really breathing any life into his character that makes it seem flat. An art western.
Nov 16, 2007	LookingLand	40 _39th
plodding.
Oct 17, 2007	Icarus	20 _2nd
The novel is magnificent. The movie, not so much.
Aug 14, 2007	spoonerspot	70 _12th
Pretty and artistic...that's about it
Apr 01, 2007	Stain	60 _47th
Not much here, really
Jan 08, 2007	leshii	63 _41st
I am a big fan of the book but this movie seemed poorly paced, sloppily edited, and incomplete. I've heard that the studio forced Thorton to edit it down to its current state, so it might be that the real version of the film, the version that does the book justice, is out there somewhere. Penelope Cruz is, as usual, a black hole in an otherwise nicely cast movie.

Average Percentile 34.57% from 239 Ratings