Heavens Gate
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.
14 May 1953, Lubbock, Texas, USA
9 July 1946, Germany
15 May 1905, Petersburg, Virginia, USA
10 January 1935, Huntsville, Arkansas, USA
19 April 1951
21 February 1925, Fresno, California, USA
22 January 1940, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
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.
September 29, 2014
Enormous, but also gorgeous in its enormity.
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.
August 04, 2013
I will leave others to pick nits off this epic panorama.
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.
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.
March 02, 2012
It really is a stinker.
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.
April 01, 2013
On a purely sensory level, Heaven's Gate is overpowering.
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.
