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Watch: Heaven’s Gate 1980 123movies, Full Movie Online – In 1890 Wyoming, James Averill is the Sherriff of Johnson County, which is largely inhabited by foreign immigrants. The wealthy cattle owners view the immigrant farmers as a nuisance and hindrance to them enlarging their own land. The cattlemen’s association, the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, effectively declares war on the immigrant farmers and gets the state government’s blessing. They assemble an army of guns-for-hire and, backed by the U.S. Cavalry, set out to rid the state of the immigrants. James Averill’s heart is with the immigrants, but he doesn’t think they have a chance of winning the inevitable war..
Plot: Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area’s poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners fight the immigrants with the help of Nathan Champion, a mercenary competing with Averill for the love of local madam Ella Watson. As the struggle escalates, Averill and Champion begin to question their decisions.
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Ratings:

	6.7/10 Votes: 15,373
	59% | RottenTomatoes
	57/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 275 Popularity: 13.062 | TMDB

Reviews:

Has any film undergone the level of critical turnaround afforded HEAVEN’S GATE (1980) since its initial banishment and failure? Nearly four decades removed from the vitriol and scorn heaped upon, not only the film, but the hubris of its director and the perceived wastefulness of an out-of-control production system, what did writer/director Michael Cimino ultimately leave his audience? Well, as with most (but certainly not all) polarizing works of art, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. At 219 minutes, there is certainly dross; unfortunately, the love triangle at the film’s heart constitutes a great deal of it. I’ll say it outright: The romance aspect is boring. The picture is much more successful when it focuses on the rancher/immigrant conflict. Even prior to that, the first 30 minutes or so are not only absorbing, they’re downright dazzlingly written and performed. I find myself searching for Sam Waterston, John Hurt, Christopher Walken, Kris Kristofferson (away from the romance scenes), and Jeff Bridges and sort-of waiting for other elements to pass-by (almost 10 minutes of roller-skating, anyone?). Transamerica’s panicked, short-sighted abandonment of United Artists initially burdened this film with a catastrophic reputation which it didn’t deserve. Looked at alongside modern cinema, there is something exciting about the risk-it-all ethos which Cimino (and other directors) brought to the table in the heady ’70s. Worth seeing at least once; not only for its sprawling, go-for-broke approach, but also for a look at the tail-end of an era of creative freedom in Hollywood which will almost certainly never be seen again.

***Cimino’s epic Western about the Johnson County War, unjustly lambasted by critics***

With the government’s blessing, cattle barons in Wyoming circa 1890 hire an army of mercenaries to kill claimed rustlers who, in many cases, are innocent settlers. A marshal born into wealth (Kris Kristofferson) sides with the poor immigrants in Johnson County; in his spare time he romances a French madam (Isabelle Huppert) who’s also pursued by a top enforcer of the stockmen (Christopher Walken).

“Heaven’s Gate” (1980) is Michael Cimino’s notorious adult-oriented Western that brought down a studio. Cimino’s style is arty with a focus on mundane realism, similar to Francis Ford Coppola. I’m not a fan of Cimino’s previous film, the overrated “The Deer Hunter” (1978), because of the tedious opening hour and the disagreeable focus on Russian Roulette, although I love his Tarantino-like “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” (1974). Cimino wisely doesn’t allow the Harvard graduation sequence that opens “Heaven’s Gate” to go on forever like the wedding in “Deer Hunter,” not to mention it has aesthetic merit.

There are two versions of the film: The premiere New York City cut runs 3 hours, 39 minutes while the edited version that hit theaters five months later is a little over an hour shorter (roughly 2.5 hours). Critics complain that the story makes no sense, but it’s actually really simple with only a handful of main characters. I was never confused about what was happening and I viewed the shorter version. The locations and photography are top-of-the-line. Whether or not you appreciate the story will depend on if you favor Cimino’s arty, mature and realistic style. In any case, everything leads to an action-packed climax.

When the movie was released there was a critical feeding frenzy, but much of the criticisms are disingenuous as critics conveniently jumped on the hate wagon. For instance, there’s the complaint that this is an ugly film due to an industrial pall, including dust and smoke. Actually, the visuals are awesome despite any dust, smoke or fog. Roger Ebert complained that a character in a burning cabin who is convinced that he’s going to die writes a note and signs his full name before breaking out and getting shot, but the real-life person in question kept a journal of his besieging and, in fact, signed it off before dying. Ebert also whined about a gunman breaking into a house and shooting three men who are raping a woman and yet she is unscathed. Actually the guy in question is a marshal by profession and therefore highly skilled at gunmanship. So what’s the problem? Yet another criticism is that the antagonists could’ve easily gotten to the attackers utilizing the armored wagon made of logs by going around or behind, but the settlers would’ve easily shot ’em down if they unwisely did this seeing as how they would’ve been out in the open. Aduh.

The film was shot in Montana (Kalispell, Glacier National Park, Blackfeet Indian Reservation, etc.) with the Casper, Wyoming, sequence shot in Wallace, Idaho, and the Harvard segment filmed (obviously) in England.

GRADE: B/B-

A western in the tradition of The Wild Bunch… if the first three reels of TWB were replaced with “The Sorrow and the Pity”.
Time to make not one, not two, but three confessions.

1. I have tried to make it past the first hour many times, and just barely made it past the third as of recently. It wasn’t easy- good thing I had a pot of coffee nearby. 2. I absolutely hated the Deer Hunter. Thought it was complete garbage as with any Michael Cimino film. 3. I believe anyone who has sit through even 5 minutes of this cinematic abortion deserves a big cheque from Cimino himself as an apology.

Don’t listen to the people who call this film a masterpiece. I don’t know what they’re snorting, and I certainly don’t want any of it, especially if it dumbs them down enough to make them call this film a masterpiece.

Don’t get me started on how long each scene is. The 20 minute dance scene in the beginning will make you go “OK is it done yet????”. Or the 5 minute shots of people staring off into the distance. I don’t mind movies starting off slowly, as long as the time is spent to set the tone. I’ll mention Inglourious Basterds here- the opening scene is 20 minutes long and consists of a conversation at a table between a Nazi and a Jew. However, it’s there for a reason. It’s a scene in which miss a single line of dialogue, and you will not get the film. It does an excellent job at setting the tone and having the audience on the edge of their seat.

To say this movie moves at a slow pace is really wrong- it doesn’t move at any pace at all. It just sits on its arse and expects the audience to help it move. That’s not to say that nothing happens, because plenty happens- too bad only 10 minutes of it are actual content. There’s a difference between epics and length. The entire dialogue could fit onto maybe 3 sheets of paper, and back to back too. And whatever dialogue was there, it wasn’t even interesting at all.

The movie even looks like crap too. Half the film is shot in Sepia- this takes 2 seconds to get annoying, and by the third hour, it you’ll be needing to see an eye doctor. This is just a horrible film, and one that should be avoided. The quote on the back of the DVD is right too- “A Remarkable Achievement”. I’m only sure the full quote was “A remarkable achievement in boring its audience to death”.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 3 hr 39 min (219 min), 2 hr 29 min (149 min) (1981 re-cut), 3 hr 37 min (217 min) (2012 director’s recut) (USA)
Budget 44000000
Revenue 3484331
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Adventure, Drama, Western
Director Michael Cimino
Writer Michael Cimino
Actors Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 9 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo (35 mm prints), 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)
Aspect Ratio 2.20 : 1 (70 mm prints), 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex, Panavision C-Series Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 4,095 m (Sweden), 4,110 m (Finland), 5,994 m (original cut) (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 100T 5247)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm, 70 mm (blow-up)