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- AMERICAN OUTLAWS is a rock and roll western for the MTV era. It may be a little on the dumb and cheesy side, but it does not take itself or its characters too seriously and it has enough cute cowboys, shoot-outs, and romance to remind us how much we've missed seeing westerns.
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Aug 17, 2001 · The style, class and intelligence of a Western like that (in an era which also gave us "The Wild Bunch") is like a rebuke to "American Outlaws." What happened to the rough-hewn American intelligence that gave us the Westerns of Ford, Hawks and Peckinpah? When did cowboys become teen pop idols?
Aug 17, 2001 · With corny dialogue, revisionist history, anachronistic music, and a generically attractive cast, American Outlaws is a sanitized, teenybopper version of Jesse James. Read Critics Reviews
- (102)
- Les Mayfield
- PG-13
- Colin Farrell
American Outlaws Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Let's cast a lot of cute boys as the James/Younger gang. In...
Aug 17, 2001 · American Outlaws: Directed by Les Mayfield. With Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali Larter, Gabriel Macht. 5 Southern friends return home when the war ends 1865. But Yankee soldiers and Pinkerton are busy helping a railroad baron grab land from farmers along the planned railroad west.
- (18K)
- Action, Western
- Les Mayfield
- 2001-08-17
User Reviews. Probably suit The Younger generation. Many of today's younger viewers probably won't know too much about the James Boys, and The Youngers. So they can enjoy this for what it is, "a funny, bullet dodging romp, through the wild west. ".
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 13% approval rating based on 103 reviews, with an average rating of 3.7/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "With corny dialogue, revisionist history, anachronistic music, and a generically attractive cast, American Outlaws is a sanitized, teenybopper version of Jesse James". [8]
Aug 17, 2001 · When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs.