Survives its clichés

AKS-6

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Well, like someone has already said in a comment: "The Jack Bull" is certainly a clichéd film. But it boasts fine performances from most of the actors, and with an actor like John Cusack what could really go wrong? Well, a lot probably, :-), but it doesn't go *that* wrong in this film. The story is rather interesting, but at some times I really didn't feel the connection between the film and me that is almost needed to make a 'good movie experience'. Still, the fact that Myrl Redding does hang in the end is such an 'anti-cliché' that I was actually happy for the film (not for the characters in the film though) that it ended that way. Usually in films like this, the hero is saved in the last minute. Not so here, and despite the sad ending it was rather refreshing. So, thanks to the last anti-cliché "The Jack Bull" survives all the other clichés and it turns out to be an acceptable film with some great performances from Cusack and John Goodman. (5 or 6 out of 10.)

score 5/10

AKS-6 21 January 2000

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0596120/