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Article: ``OUTLAWS'' BRINGS BACK THE WESTERN.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 22, 2001
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Byline: MAL VINCENT THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
AMERICAN Outlaws'' is great news for movie fans who have been out of the saddle so long that they wouldn't know a sagebrush from a shrub. With action ranging from a Civil War battle scene to a runaway train, this movie gets points for reviving the western, without the silliness of films such as ``Young Guns.''
Sure, the history is off and the plot is absurd, but do people really go to westerns for those things?
``American Outlaws'' is great fun and, most of all, not pretentious. It doesn't try to modernize its lovable cliches. The railroad barons are the bad guys - even to the point of dressing in black ...