Fresh on the heels of the Jane Got A Gun release date is a review from an early screening of the film. Because it was probably an early cut and because the source is unknown, I would take it all with a pinch of salt. Thanks to lightscamerareaction.

Well Natalie Portman is the film’s MVP.

It was such an emotionally stirring performance and and did a magnificent job carrying a whole movie on her shoulders and showing her development as a weak, abused woman to a strong, assertive mother.

That’s the film’s biggest, and of its few, pros though.

Overall, I thought the film was mediocre.

I blame the choice of director. I LOVE Gavin O’Connor, who was a last minute replacement, but I had the same problem I had with Mira Nair’s work in “The Namesake” (2007) and Steven Spielberg’s for “Lincoln” (2012): It was dull!

The first rule of cinema is to never be boring. O’Connor never gave us the suspenseful atmosphere and action this western needed.

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