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3:10 to Yuma is another entry in Hollywood's current favorite genre: the remake. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, depending on how you look at such things), I can't compare it to the original, as I've never seen it. But I have seen this film, and it's about a down-on-his-luck fellow named Dan Evans (Christian Bale) who's trying to hold onto his ranch, even though a powerful local businessman is trying to drive him off the land so it can be sold to the railroad (a favorite plot device of Westerns). Evans has a bum leg from the Civil War, and a family that includes an older son who doesn't respect him (Logan Lerman), a younger son who looks up to him as a hero, and a lovely supportive wife (Gretchen Mol). As he sees it, they're all counting on him to protect them, to be a good role model, and to give them a good home and good life, and he's failing. So of course he agrees to come along when local lawmen need another man in their posse (which includes Byron McElroy, played by Peter Fonda, and Doc Potter, played by Alan Tudyk of Serenity fame) to help them transport the infamous, vicious killer and robber, Ben Wade (Russell Crowe), to the train that will take him to the prison at Yuma. The job will pay Evans the money he desperately needs to keep his ranch, and it'll make him look like a hero to his kids. The problem is, Wade's gang, now led by his loyal and brutal second-in-command, Charlie Prince (Ben Foster), is determined to rescue him before the train can take him, and they'll kill anybody who gets in their way. And Wade himself isn't exactly a peach either.

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