A dramatization of the real-life Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, in which a sheriff born into wealth attempts to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.
28 September 1951, Oakland, California, USA
18 December 1952, Galveston, Texas, USA
4 December 1939, Colton, California, USA
15 May 1905, Petersburg, Virginia, USA
29 July 1951, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
22 January 1940, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
16 September 1952, Schenectady, New York, USA
15 November 1940, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
22 July 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
30 September 1944, Galway, Ireland
18 March 1950, Belleville, Illinois, USA
6 August 1956, New York City, New York, USA
12 April 1951, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
14 January 1948, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
9 July 1946, Germany
14 May 1953, Lubbock, Texas, USA
21 February 1925, Fresno, California, USA
15 July 1952, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA
June 08, 2015
Neither Kris Kristofferson nor Christopher Walken, both of them fine actors, can prevail against the relentless scale and movement of the production.
March 02, 2012
The longer version is impressive as long as the characters and settings remain in long shot; only when the camera gets closer do the problems start.
March 02, 2012
It really is a stinker.
April 01, 2013
On a purely sensory level, Heaven's Gate is overpowering.
July 22, 2008
The balance of director Michael Cimino's film is so confusing, so overlong at three-and-a-half hours and so ponderous that it fails to work at almost every level.
August 15, 2013
The first critics to lay eyes on it mistook the emphasis on the personal and painterly for self-indulgence - static naval gazing. This confuses incident with the incidental.
August 04, 2013
I will leave others to pick nits off this epic panorama.
September 29, 2014
Enormous, but also gorgeous in its enormity.
March 27, 2015
It is a bloated Western that contains some extraordinary moments, a lot of heavy-handed political commentary and a hell of a lot of padding.
August 01, 2013
It is a demanding film, without a doubt - but a passionate one.
March 19, 2013
If anything, Michael Cimino's inert disaster of a Western has gotten worse over the years ...
February 09, 2006
For all the abuse heaped on it, this is -- in its complete version, at least -- a majestic and lovingly detailed Western which simultaneously celebrates and undermines the myth of the American frontier.
