High Noon review

Movie review 2:  High Noon is a classic western film which has been praised by many, won many awards, and has been seen as one of the greatest western of all time. This movies absolutely awful i can't understand how this film was ever put to screen like honestly the acting is insanely bad, i do understand that it was made in the past but come on. This has got to be one of the worst westerns ive ever seen, and i've seen some terrible westerns such as True Grit. At least in this film you can understand what there saying, so thats a positive i guess.


 High Noon was directed by an absolutely awful director who clearly has no idea what he's doing by the name of Fred Zinneman. He's loved by many, hated by few, but i'm one of those few so deal with it i guess. This disaster of a film was made in 1952, a terrible year for the film industry since this trash won 3 oscars and was nominated for 6. This is a western made during a time when westerns were at their peak, i'm sure where all glad thats no longer the case. First up we have oscar winning actor Gary Cooper ( I have 0 clue how he managed that). The only other relevant actor in this film is Grace Kelly who does as much as she can with the role but there's honestly not much room to do anything when you have a awful actor like Gary Cooper beside you.

Overall this movies trash, and i would not recommend watching it. It's in black and white, has horrible acting, and has a annoying theme song to it with a plot that is pretty much irrelevent and does not put forward anything new or interesting to the western genre or to society itself there is really no reason for this movie to exist, this is likely one of the worst movies i have ever seen with the only thing remotely original is having the movie play out in real time which is quite interesting and cool. But that's it. Like literally it. 2/10

Former marshal Will Kane (Gary Cooper) is preparing to leave the small town of Hadelyville, New Mexico, with his new bride, Amy (Grace Kelly) when he learns that local criminal Frank Miller has been set free and is coming to seek revenge on the marshal who turned him in. When he starts recruiting deputies to fight Miller, Kane is discouraged to find that the people of Hadleyville turn cowardly when the time comes for a showdown and he must face Miller and his cronies alone.

Wow, what a brilliant, well thought out plot. I really appreciate this for what it is. Awful. How is Frank Miller, a dangerous criminal being released with his intention being well known to go and kill a marshal and some towns people. Also if everyone is friends with Miller and secretly against Kane like it suggests in the plot when one of Millers friends go into the bar, why do they care if Millers coming back. Absolutely terrible plot honestly i'm not sure how so many plot holes were let through in one film, and i'm sure they could of done better if they put some more effort in and really thought it through.

Gary Cooper as Will Kane: incredibly abysmal performance from your boy Gary Cooper. It's actually a miracle that this guy won a oscar i really don't understand, i'm pretty sure i could of done a better job honestly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpABJHwsZG0 like seriously.... 1/10

Grace Kelly as Amy: She did what she could of with this poorly written and boring character, as most woman characters are in westerns which is probably the genre most guilty of mistreating there woman characters in films. I can't really fault the actor herself for this but the character was just awful which is once again on this shockingly appealing director. 3/10

Helen Ramirez as Katy Jurado: only decent performance in the movie, she was a relatively interesting character but still nothing special and she gave up most of her screen time to Will Kane, and whenever Gary Cooper's in the scene you know its gonna be bad. 5/10

And that's it. There are literally no other relevant characters. Which i'm glad too see since i wouldn't want to see any other decent actors dragged into this mess. Frank Miller doesn't even need to be in this film, it could of been anyone it really doesn't matter. The reason for this may be the non-existant character development shown throughout this film, who knows?

The only theme explored in this film is really Good Vs Evil a idea thats guess what, shown in literally every single western as it's a genre that lacks originality and freshness and this movie was clearly not what it needed. It represents Will Kane as the good, the bad guy who you don't even need to know his name since he's so generic as the bad, and the townspeople in the middle. The towns people are obviously corrupt though as the don't want too fight some criminal that the marshal has beef with. The towns people are really represented by this quote "The only thing necessary for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke. This basically represents that while the towns people aren't necessarily evil, they aren't doing anything to stop evil so they are kind of helping it prosper. Which means that Will Kane the superstar is the only good person in this movie. It's a shame he's extremely unlikable and is generally a asshole.

The only thing i liked about this film was how it was played out in real time which was quite original, everything else what terrible and that is the only positive thing this film has to offer.

The only way this film relates to society is through the idea that people are to lazy and aren't actively trying to stop evil in the world, only letting it happen and then saying 'oh no that's terrible!' it asks us to take action like the legend himself Will Kane.

In conclusion today, I've watched a film that was a complete waste of my time so you don't have too, i'll be expecting a check delivered swiftly too my door from all of you and a excellence at least. This movie is probably the worst movie i've ever seen and has 0



replayablity or likeable qualities. I know i said i'd given this piece of shit a 2/10 before but i think i'm going to have to go with a 1 actually.

I really don't know any kind of demographic that would enjoy this. Maybe like middle aged American men? I sure didn't, and guess what! I bet you won't too! save yourself the trouble and give this movie a miss.