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| Ride With The Devil [1999] | ![Ride With The Devil [1999]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HSR350YZL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Ang Lee
Actors: Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright, Jewel
Studio: Entertainment in Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (20 reviews)
Sales Rank: 5701
Format: Anamorphic, Pal, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 135 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5017239190605
ASIN: B00004T8VQ
Release Date: May 15, 2000
Theatrical Release Date: January 4, 2001
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Great period pictures make you feel as if you've stepped into another era, heard its language, breathed its spirit, and come away with a fresh perspective on that time as well as your own. IRide with the Devil/I is one of those special films--why wasn't it more widely embraced by reviewers and filmgoers? Did it rely too much on our patience for slow accumulation of unforced rhythms and meanings (as opposed to IThe Patriot/I, which "moved" audiences with cattle-prod simplicity and manipulation)? IRide with the Devil/I--smart, handsome, tenderly awed by how individual lives get ambushed by history--is ripe for rediscovery.p The Civil War of battlefields and plantation houses is nowhere to be seen here. Instead we see the war as an improvised and largely blundering but very bloody feud among neighbours in the border state of Missouri. In this bucolic war zone--more than a little reminiscent of the Balkans in the late 1990s--the Taiwanese-born director Ang Lee (IThe Ice Storm/I) traces the destinies of several young Southern bushwhackers (guerrilla fighters) as they experience violence, the seasons, and different kinds of love. Skeet Ulrich draws the aristocratic glamour role (and top billing), but he's overshadowed by Tobey Maguire as a first-generation American, the magnificent Jeffrey Wright (a shameful oversight at Oscar time) as a freed slave fighting beside his former master, and singer Jewel in a very natural acting debut as the young widow who graces all their lives. The title IThe Birth of a Nation/I was already taken, but by the end of this movie you feel it would have applied here. --IRichard T. Jameson, Amazon.com/I
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 Intelligent and pertinent film December 15, 2008
A fascinating film of the American Civil War, told from the perspective of the Southerners, which has much to say about war today. The position of sympathising with the Southern slave-owners puts the viewer into a delberately uncomfortable positionbr /br /The film tells the story of a young, disorganised group of soldiers, thrust into doing terrible things for a cause that they do not fully understand. It deals with racism and the effects of violence.br /br /Perhaps the most telling scene is when the central characters discuss whether they will eventually succeed. They talk about how the yankees, in building a new town, built the schoolhouse first. They were always going to win because they want the whole world to think like them, whereas the Southerners are merely fighting to be left alone and continue their lives as they know it.br /br /Fantastic
 Didn't like it as much as I wanted. November 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love Western era films, and I really wanted to like this one but something just bugged me about it. It wasn't the lack of action, or the story. I think it was the (in my opinion) miscasting of the actors. Tobey Maguire and Jonathan Rhys Meyers just seemed to innocent and fresh faced to be in this scenario, I think the parts would have been better served by an actor who looks like they have lived a bit. The costumes and haircuts seemed more 'Three Muskateers' than American Civil War. I'm no expert on that particular era but I have never noticed these particular styles being worn in any other films centred around that time. All of these things are slightly minor but just took away from the authenticity of the film in my opinion. Top marks to Jeffrey Wright (recently seen in the new Bond films) who was superb, as was, suprisingly, Jewel in her acting debut. Not bad but better films have been made before and since.
 dull April 14, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
me and my boyfriend had a very depressing sunday night, normally we watch some films together before monday but on this occasion after first trying unsuccessfully to watch The Crazies and finding it totally boring, we opted for this which wasn't much better. The acting was rather wooden and the story did not have as much pizazz as i was expecting. I am all for giving different genres a chance i.e. westerns but this really made me double think if i would actually be interested in watching one ever again!
Startlingly good! July 29, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ang Lee isn't interested in reenacting the major incidents that took place during the American Civil War in his period piece Ride with the Devil. Instead, the talented Tawain-born director -- who won a deserved Oscar for Brokeback Mountain -- is more concerned with the effects the war had on those who were on the losing side. Ride with the Devil is a contemplative, incisive treatment of a period of great turmoil in America's short history, approached from a unique viewpoint.br /br /The film stars the reliable Tobey Maguire as Jake Roedel, the son of a German immigrant. Despite his father's strong support for Lincoln and the Union, Jake considers himself a Confederate. But not all of the community feel he's one of them. No matter how hard he tries, he will forever be an outsider it seems.br /br /Then when the father of his best friend Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich) is savagely murdered by a gang of Unionists, Jake and his friend pursue a life of crime among the bushwhackers, an army of Conferate guerrilla fighters led by Black John (Jim Caviezel). Lee highlights the absence of ideals in the hearts and minds of most soldiers. These men join the cause to pursue a vendetta. Once they have got revenge, Jake and Jack don't have much to fight for -- the war is all but over.br /br /Practically the only female figure in the film is in the form of Sue Lee (popstar Jewel), a widow who is swiftly wooed by Jack Bull. Showing restraint and subtle composure, Jewel proves to be a robust thesp. She doesn't collapse into a fountain of tears alla Gwyneth Paltrow,despite the fact her character's "had bad luck" (severe bad luck, I hasten to add)br /br /It would of course be an oversight to neglect to at least touch on the issue of slavery that fuelled the Civil War. Focusing on the side of the Confederates, the film presents us with an anomaly: Daniel Holt (played with quiet integrity by Jeffrey Wright), a black character who is effectively fighting for his "right" to be a slave. He fights alongside the very people who subjugate and taunt him. In one excruciating scene, he's belittled by the visiting Sue as well as his own companions while he sits in the shadows, resigned to this torment. He is indebted to George Clyde (Simon Baker), a bushwhacker who bought him out of slavery. Yet George Clyde condescends to Holt and treats him more like a beloved pet than a fellow human being.br /br /Initially treating him as an inferior, Jake gradually realises Daniel (or "Holt" as he's more commonly referred to) is the only companion he's got and sees beyond the colour of his skin. There is a direct correlation between Jake's growing tolerance of Holt and his own disillusionment with the cause he's fighting for. As the casualties pile up, he begins to wonder what they died for. He begins to loose that feeling of solidarity with fellow bushwhackers; in the bigoted Pitt Mackeson (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) he has a nemesis to deal with who is on the same side of the battlefield as him. The ambiguity of war has never been more convincing than here. The Lawrence massacre (a true-life event which cost the lives of 180 innocent civilians) that he himself partakes in despite his reservations seems to be indicative of the state of affairs: random violence and casual slaughter in the name of nothing more than pride and a refusal to change. Conveying every internal conflict on his eternally youthful face, Tobey Maguire gives a performance that makes you wish he had spent those years working on the Spiderman franchise doing more acting and less action.br /br /The denouement may be a bit lengthy but it does allow the characters to breathe and blossom. As the characters heal from both their emotional and physical wounds, Ang Lee takes his time to round out his characters. Ang Lee's tone is sympathetic but is never in danger of veering into sentimentality. And although it would be described as a sombre film, James Schamus's screenplay includes some moments of unforced humour that lighten the occasionally stilted dialogue at times. When the time comes for Holt to depart and pursue his own life, we must leave two of the most compelling characters I've encountered on film. And while the film looks forward to an America that has been changed for ever, I found myself thinking back to scenes which involved Holt or Jake. It's a film laden with tragedy but I found it strangely uplifting: I wore a smile as the screen faded to black.
Middle of the road and ratings.................. July 23, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Is where I would place this movie. Everyones opinion is bound to be different and I can't go overboard like some reviewers seemingly have but I can't run down what is a reasonable film.The story takes us through part of the American Civil War really with the story told to us by Jake Rodell(Tobey Maguire)who is one of a group of Confederate supporting horsemen attacking and raiding the Unionist Norths soldiers.This film contains love,brutality and the in-fighting that this worst kind of war brings.Also stars Skeet Ulrich,Jeffrey Wright and Jewel. I rated Open Range Lonesome Dove 5 stars so I think 3 is about right for this.
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