Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5051429101224
Format: PAL
Label: Icon Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageSpanishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Icon Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Icon Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: December 24, 2007
Running Time: 115 minutes
Studio: Icon Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2007

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Out of nowhere, the Western seems to be enjoying its latest mini-resurgence. And while Seraphim Falls isn't quite as high profile as the recent 3:10 To Yuma, it's still a solidly made piece of cinema that's well worth spending some time with.

It centres around the search for a man named Gideon, played by Pierce Brosnan, and the reasons for said search aren't clear at the start of the film. But what is certain is that a small party is on his trail, led by Liam Neeson's Morsman Carver, and that Carver is very determined to get his man. From this set up, Seraphim Falls slowly unfolds as an intelligent, ambiguous mish-mash of Western and thriller, and an intriguing one at that.

Seraphim Falls, it should be said, isn't a ride without a few problems. The pacing isn't consistent, for instance, and the back end of the film doesn't make the most of the build up before it. But there's still plenty in its corner. Its two star actors are in excellent form, with both Brosnan and Neeson revelling in the complexity of their respective characters, while some sequences are genuinely exciting too.

If Serphami Falls, though, fails to quite deliver what it hints it's capable of, then it still leaves enough in place to enjoy. Refusing to dumb down its approach, it's a grown-up, interesting movie, and one that's easily possible to warm to in spite of the aforementioned problems. Roll on more Westerns, say we… --Jon Foster




Rating: - From hard and gritty to mythical and allegorical
A film of two halves, but with a somewhat uncomfortable join.
This movie starts off with one of the most gritty and riveting hunts in recent memory. Pierce Brosnan's weatherbeaten and hardened ex Union officer is the hunted one, and Liam Neeson is the hunter, driven remorselessly by the ghosts of his past. The cold of the mountains, the pain of using a knife to gouge out a bullet and cauterize the wound, the chill of the water, the close quarters kills with the knife, all make for a visceral ... Read More

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Rating: - Seraphim Fails
You know where you are when a movie gets glowing reviews from the Daily Star and Daily Mirror.

Seraphim Falls certainly doesn't disappoint, living so far down to expectations that it may well rate some kind of Worst Movie of 2007 Award. But then, it was rushed out onto DVD in a hurry, and seemingly amidst so much embarrassment that the DVD transfer is even worse than the theatrical release itself.

Looking at the outset like a potentially interesting entry from a student film maker ... Read More

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Rating: - Chase movie with a Western setting
Although set in 19th century USA this isn't a typical Western in many ways but instead offers an extended chase/revenge thriller rather than the old standard tales of settlers, trains, 'injuns' and bankrobbing - though all of those do make appearances.
The film opens with a grizzled Brosnan sitting by a fire eating feshly roast rabbit on a snowy mountainside but the idyll is promptly shattered when he is shot at by an unseen assailant. Brosnan flees down the mountain and indeed spends most of the movie ... Read More

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Rating: - Very Watchable and Very Forgettable
Firstly,let me say that Seraphim Falls is a welcome addition to the western genre; chiefly because it was made at all in a lean time for Westerns. Secondly let me say that a story as thin as this needs so much more than great locations and earnest, talented actors. Seraphim Falls starts excitingly and a level of tension (despite some heinous editing) is pretty much maintained. Then, after Pierce Brosnan confronts a youthful outlaw, it becomes outlandish, cliched nonsense. It enters into a collection of other, ... Read More

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Rating: - Bitter pursuit
Set in the bitter aftermath of the American Civil War, Seraphim Falls is a tale of revenge. Across the extraordinary New Mexico landscape, Neeson relentlessly pursues Brosnan across snowy mountains, torrential rivers, scrubland and finally desert. One consumed by anger and hatred, the other eaten up by remorse. All that keeps them going is pursuit, a fact made clear at the film's climax, when the two protagonists face each other, stripped of everything (even the landscape is featureless) except the means of killing ... Read More

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