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Roedel and Chiles want revenge. Clyde, a Southerner, believes in Dixie values and traditions, but is complex enough to have freed Holt, once his slave. Holt's motives are the most impenetrable. Why would a former slave fight for the South?
Ride With the Devil R 1999 2h 18m History Drama List 64% Tomatometer 67 Reviews 66% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings On the fringes of the Civil War, Missouri Bushwackers engage in guerrilla...
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- Skeet Ulrich
Sep 13, 1999 · A complex and divisive time in American history is painted in admirably expressive shades of gray in “Ride With the Devil.”
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- Picture 6/10
- Audio 8/10
- Extras 6/10
- Closing
With this new director’s cut, Ang Lee reconstructs his original vision for Ride with the Devil, a harrowing, unorthodox Civil War epic. Set during the Kansas-Missouri border war, the film follows Jake (Tobey Maguire) and Jack Bull (Skeet Ulrich), who join the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers after Jack Bull’s father is killed by abolitionist J...
The Criterion Collection presents Ang Lee’s new director’s cut of Ride with the Devilin its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1 on this dual-layer disc. The picture has been enhanced for widescreen televisions. The transfer on here is okay, sharing some of the same problems as the Blu-ray; it comes off looking soft throughout much of the film, lacking ...
The film comes with a rather nice Dolby Digital 5.1 surround track. Though it’s certainly more of a talky film there are a few decent action sequences spread throughout and the sound field is used rather nicely. Some of the action sequences present fairly loud gun shots, roaring hoofs from charging horses, and rebel yells, all of which move natural...
Though we do get two commentaries for this edition supplements leave a little to be desired because of the lack of some more historical information. But first worth mentioning is the fact that Criterion’s DVD and Blu-ray editions both include the director’s cut of the film. I hadn’t seen the film in probably ten years so it was hard for me to recal...
I do like the film a lot more in this new edition, though despite the amount of praise everyone heaps upon it in the commentary tracks I feel it’s still one of Lee’s weaker films. But I think those that initially dismissed it may want to try it again by giving this new DVD (or Blu-ray) a rental. As a whole, though, this edition does feel like a mis...
Rotten Tomatoes reported that 64% of 67 sampled critics gave the film a positive review, with an average score of 6.3 out of 10. [22] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average out of 100 to critics' reviews, Ride with the Devil received a score of 69 based on 29 reviews. [21]
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. David Lamble Bay Area Reporter. The acting gem in this two-and-a-half-hour epic is the hair-raising rivalry between Maguire and a feral young killer....
172 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 9/10. I'd be bad meat – pretty well rotted to a glob. hitchcockthelegend 6 July 2011. Ride with the Devil is directed by Ang Lee and adapted to screenplay by James Schamus (also producer) from the novel "Woe to Live On" written by Daniel Woodrell.
