'True Grit'

True Grit is about a fourteen year-old girl, Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), who is determined to get revenge on the man, Chaney (Josh Brolin), who killed her father. Within minutes she proves quickly her smarts, wit, and determination to find Chaney, bring him to justice, and see him hanged. She soon realizes she is not able to do this task alone and asks for help from a drunken, one-eyed reckless US Marshall Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges). His strong personality is shown through a trial which he must suffer due to the charges on him shooting a few people in self defense. Being rejected by Mr. Cogburn ever so quickly on her proposal to pay him fifty dollars ($50.00) to go help catch Chaney, she goes to her room to ponder a new strategy as to how to catch Chaney. Waking up in the morning with Texas Ranger Laboeuf (Matt Damon) who has a warrant for Chaney’s arrest and intends to cash in on a wanted poster for a crime he committed in Arkansas. While the three of them battle controversies along the way they all have a sole mission, capturing Chaney. As they set on their course together overcoming their conflicts, differences, and putting together the puzzle whom is helping Chaney and his crew.

In this remake of the old 1969 western staring John Wayne is directed by the Coen Bros. In this high expected probable academy award nominee movie was unfortunately a disappointment. While this film held up to the typical western type movie it did not hold up to cinematic expectations or Coen bros. film making expectations. Everyone except Brolin will be getting a nomination, Bridges will get one for his accent, Damon for his assertiveness as a law enforcer, and Steinfeld will get one for showing her determination as a committed pioneer girl of the old west. Brolin will not get a nomination because his character, as the film later progresses, is not even the main antagonist. Do not expect a Coen Bros type movie, an extraordinary movie with deep thought left at the end, or anyone in this film to win. What saves this film from being a highly lower grade than thought was after a few days of pondering the film, as with most Coen Bros films, is it gets better the more thought about. B