I'm honestly not quite sure who to blame for this mess. The writing is obviously weak, but sometimes when you have great actors they can almost blind you to it. That does happen here to a point... Tim Roth, Abbie Cornish, the late Sam Shepard and Tim Blake Nelson all pull in decent performances, and if not for them this 6 hour clunker would have been completely unbearable.
Writing, and acting aside the direction here is headscratchingly bad, to the point where You can quite literally see things coming from a mile away. It's cliché after cliché mixed with a bit of decent scenery, and then back to cliché, and that's really all there is to Klondike.
If anyone is actually interested in seeing a great period piece that focuses on a gold rush I could not recommend HBO's Deadwood more...boy were we ever spoiled with Deadwood!
Juxtaposed with Deadwood, Klondike looks like something a child would create... Go watch Deadwood if you haven't already seen it, you can thank me later!
Writing, and acting aside the direction here is headscratchingly bad, to the point where You can quite literally see things coming from a mile away. It's cliché after cliché mixed with a bit of decent scenery, and then back to cliché, and that's really all there is to Klondike.
If anyone is actually interested in seeing a great period piece that focuses on a gold rush I could not recommend HBO's Deadwood more...boy were we ever spoiled with Deadwood!
Juxtaposed with Deadwood, Klondike looks like something a child would create... Go watch Deadwood if you haven't already seen it, you can thank me later!