With all the trappings of a typical Western, this film manages to avoid most of what makes Westerns repetitive by focusing solely on the characters. Characters, true which are fairly flat, except for the main character, whose arc even a blind man could see coming and whose obsession with gold comes on so fast and sudden, it may give some viewers whiplash.
However, the lust for gold is secondary to the interactions between the characters which come about during and especially after the search for gold becomes fruitful, and its those interactions which keep the film gripping throughout its second half.
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