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‘Rust’ Review: Tragedy Hit The Set But Now Alec Baldwin’s Western Hits The Screen – What’s The Verdict?
A review of the new western, Rust, which became notorious for its on set tragedy and death of cinematographer, but now is finally finished & released.
It doesn’t reach those heights but Rust, though overlong at 139 minutes and in need of tightening, is a perfectly decent addition to the well worn genre that basically is found these days on television rather than the big screen. Some of the side plots bog the film down and take away from the core of seeing Rust and Lucas staying one step ahead of those trailing them including a posse formed by Helm along the way, and an encounter with a widow and her son that pads Fimmel’s role. Overall though Rust, with its themes of loss, regrets, and redemption does work, and much of the credit goes to sharp direction by Souza and the gorgeous photography of the American west by Hutchins and later Cline who followed her template and distinct color palette to the point where its visual style is seamless and quite stunning, even with the hommage to John Ford’s 1956 western classic The Searchers quite evident in a few set ups with the camera in a darkened room seeing a person looking out yonder on to the bright landscape.
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