Movie review: 'Seraphim Falls' (Metromix.com)

"Seraphim Falls" is a movie some will relish and others will find a bit anachronistic. It's a violently exciting Western with a vision of the West that's grand, mythic and also full of near-surreal menace, starring two Irish-born leading actors, Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan, who here often seem born to the saddle.It's a tonic to see a picture like "Seraphim Falls." Movie westerns, which used to stampede through America's pop culture landscape like the old buffalo herds, have in the last three decades begun to seem as rare as flowers in the desert--despite the fact that the technical means for making them have never been as sharp. But "Falls'" director/co-writer, TV veteran David Von Ancken ("Cold Case") knows his Westerns--and this one has welcome suggestions of Clint Eastwood's "The Outlaw Josey Wales," Anthony Mann and Sergio Leone's vendetta oaters and John Ford's "The Searchers."