Finally recalls a less convincing version of those of Anthony Mann which managed realism and the mythic without a false note.

Von Ancken at times brings his debut very close to something grand and memorable.

Messages, as Sam Goldwyn famously advised, are better left to Western Union.

Seraphim Falls is a violently, articulately anti-war treatise disguised as a Western. It starts with a bang and few false moves mar the nonstop action from then on.