Jane Got A Gun
Panic strikes Jane Hammond when her outlaw husband John returns to their farm with bullet wounds. Jane then has to ask her ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from being killed by a gang.
23 June 1974, Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia
19 January 1973, Australia
22 August 1975, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
20 May 1968, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
9 June 1981, Jerusalem, Israel
31 March 1971, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
1 September 1981, Prestonsburg, Kentucky, USA
November 29, 1970 in Bedford, Indiana, USA
January 01, 2017
Jane lacks a strong vision, doing justice to neither the camp potential of its title nor the sophistication of its structure. She's got a gun, all right, but it's shooting blanks.
February 03, 2016
O'Connor's movie is too sentimental and self-serious to add much of note to the mythos, but Portman embodies her character's grief no less movingly than her forebears.
January 29, 2016
A Western with potential for feminist table-turning and old-fashioned violence, "Jane Got a Gun" is a major letdown. Despite being co-produced by Portman, the movie sells her character short at nearly every turn.
December 06, 2016
Finds a rather cunning way to make a brutishly straightforward scenario seem profoundly muddled.
February 22, 2017
Though I still have faith in modern Westerns as a whole, I realize that Jane Got a Gun is one of many that will likely be forgotten in time.
April 19, 2016
Feels as though everyone involved forced themselves to grit their teeth and get on with it.
January 30, 2016
At times, Jane Got A Gun comes perilously close to staying passive-to becoming A Gun Was Gotten By Jane.
January 10, 2017
This isn't a terrible movie; it certainly isn't the train wreck bomb of a release I've heard it described as. It just isn't anything great or especially engaging worth recommending.
January 29, 2016
Whatever feminist angle the film might have once aspired to is lost in its listless shuffle.
September 08, 2016
Jane Got A Gun has the promise of a strong female leading Western; the by the numbers end result doesn't even barely eclipse the central trio's last time on screen.
January 30, 2016
As stripped-down, revisionist Westerns go, "Jane Got A Gun" may not have reinvented the wagon wheel, but it rolls out as a sturdy, well-crafted genre piece despite its rocky road to the screen.
