I'm a lover of westerns and this is one of the best. Yeah, it's bloody and violent as I'm sure the early days of Australia were just that. The grittiness of the environment make the movie feel authentic, you can almost smell the people who lived during that era. Ray Winstone delivers his best as the tough lawman with a conscience, and Emily Watson balances him as his proper English wife. John Hurt portrays the bounty hunter in an eccentric way, displaying his classic training as an actor. The movie doesn't romanticize the western life, it shows it as it most likely was, dirty, hard and dangerous. The story will lead you to a somewhat predictable outcome and the characters involved along the way keep you interested to the end.
Review of The Proposition
