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‘Rust’ Review: Alec Baldwin Plays a Cold Outlaw With a Heart of Gold in a Buddy-Movie Western That Lopes Along More Than It Takes Wing
With its on-set tragedy in the distance, "Rust" turns out to be a watchable buddy-movie Western that lopes along more than it takes wing.
Despite his repeated use of “ain’t,” he comes off as an anachronism — a contempo middle-class actor with a voice that seems too light and high (something I’ve never thought about him before), impersonating the sort of reticent man of few words that Kevin Costner can play in his sleep. A posse is put together to hunt them down for a $1,000 reward, and a couple of these wild bunch of lawmen are colorful characters, starting with their leader, a Wyoming marshal named Wood Helm, played by Josh Hopkins with the stoic frontier magnetism of a ravaged Abe Lincoln. The Aussie actor Travis Fimmel has what you might think of as the Tom Hardy role — a bounty hunter named Fenton “Preacher” Lang who’s a Bible-spouting Christian and a charming sociopath, not necessarily in that order.
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