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Summary: Good and Bad
Review: I have watched this several times and still get teary eyed when in the end they have to bury another one of their companarios. Not as good as the original, however, Voight plays a good W. F. Call because in the original book he is more of a straight man. Tommy Lee Jones' Call was good and I liked him just as much. I don't think Voight and Duvall would have made as good a team. I liked Barbera Hershey better than Angelica Houston, but without Gus to play the light side to Call's straight man it is a little less entertaining. William Peterson as Gideon Walker is a good preformance, and I always like Lou Gossett Jr. Of course Ricky Schroder is good and the story is good also. I enjoyed the movie and own it on tape so it is worth the money if you are a fan of westerns.
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Summary: IT IS WONDERFUL!
Review: I love it, and all of the Lonesome Dove movies, And if I could give it more stars, I'd give it about 50 million. The characters were great in it and all the other Lonesome Dove movies, as was the dialog,acting,and plot.An all around great movie.
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Summary: Piggybacks Off The Original
Review: I once read that when Larry McMurtry saw RETURN TO LONESOME DOVE he was so enraged he responded by writing "Streets of Laredo." A Lonesome Dove fan such as myself can only speculate what kind of sequel might have been written had "Return" never hit the airwaves. Maybe the characters of Newt and July Johnson would have survived into such a sequel; perhaps the Hat Creek Cattle Company would have flourished in Montana, rather than Call having to go back to Texas to eek out a living as a bounty hunter. But I digress.RETURN TO LONESOME DOVE tries hard, very hard, to deliver a story worthy enough to follow the original mini-series. And with gifted actors like Jon Voight, Oliver Reed, and Louis Gossett, Jr., it certainly had the star power. But instead, this sequel goes down the road of "been there, done that": another livestock drive from Texas to Montana (only this time, the animals are wild horses); another murderous half-breed villain (Dennis Haysbert as "Cherokee Jack"); and a "new" Gus McRae in the form of Ranger Gideon Walker (William Peterson). We also are given a bonus storyline centering around Gus' illegitimate daughter, appropriately named Augustina Vega (Nia Peeples), who hates her late father and is obsessed to confront Call, who she believes is responsible for the death of her mother. Throw a grumpy and petulant Clara Allen (Barbara Hershey) into the mix, and RETURN TO LONESOME DOVE comes across as contrived and as palatable as a piece of horse leather. The cast does well with what it has to work with, and to be fair, the film does contain some poignant and entertaining moments. But RETURN TO LONESOME DOVE's most glaring fault is the fact that it was made at all. The producers should have adhered to the old adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
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Summary: dang good!
Review: I was skeptical goin into it. How could they pull it off? But after seein it I gotta admit this is a fine Western. I'm dang glad they did this one and proud to have it in my DVD collection.
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Summary: Following the Impossible
Review: I will admit that it would have been very hard to follow the original Lonesome Dove as a sequel. But to try and do it with mostly all new actors and with a script written by a different person is practicaly impossible. This movie would have been a fine western had it been released first or on its own. But as a follow up to Lonesome Dove it does not cut the mustard. Jon Voight is a fine actor but his portrayal of Cpt. Woodrow F. Call is not on par with Tommy Lee Jones's. With Gus (Robert Duvall) gone the banter and friendship between the two, part of the initial movies appeal, is also gone. So many of the original characters are gone and much of the feeling was lost. This movie is decent but the original was a hard act to follow.
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Summary: pretty awful DARN GOOD
Review: IF IT wasnt for the first one this just might be awfull the fact of the matter this is plain good,EVEN voight IS GOOD,very passable, PERHAPS HIS LAST MEATY role before he just turned plain awfull.YO HAVE TO USE your IMAGINATION BIG time its not too hard under the big skys of montana, thE CIMENATOPHOGRAPH IS GORGEOUS, and they get down and dirty IN SEEDY BARS,dark starry,cool CLEAR frozen mooment given an essence of PLAUSIBILTY, QUIET remeniscence OFF what is PLAIN GOOD home cookin, or SIGHT OF ole pEYE BACK FROM A MISSION ITS ALL HEART FELT,
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Summary: horrible acting
Review: if you saw the first lonesome dove then you dont need to see the second. the acting and script are done very poorly. maybe if they could have used the same actors they could have saved the poor story line.
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Summary: NOT HARDLY!
Review: In the first place, Jon Voight is totally unbelievable in the role of Woodrow F. Call. The hat's too darn big. I didn't get a chance to look at the boots. But maybe the producers of this one were looking for the same sort of chemistry between Voight and Ricky Schroeder that was attempted in The Champ. I can see it now, Call down for the count with Ricky Schroeder kneeling beside him, tears streaming down his cheeks, and crying "Get up Call, please get up!" But let me backtrack a little here. Larry McMurtry had nothing to do with this one. Are there any rocket scientists in the house? But wait, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that when the main guy shuns the production something is dreadfully wrong. Kind of reminiscent of Spielberg's refusals to be a part of the ill fated Jaws sequels. HELLO?! The story is flat, predictable and trite. Even a bit part by Reese Witherspoon as Newt's love interest can't save this one. No plans that I am aware of by Ms. Witherspoon to make Sweet Home Montana any time in the near future. Want a sequel to Lonesome Dove? Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo, in both print and video, does the job marvelously. And, yes, James Garner does a fine job as Call.
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Summary: It is the greatest Western ever made
Review: It has romance, action, comedy. Its has the best actors like Tommy Lee Jones and Rick Shroder.
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Summary: Tought Act to Follow, But Comes Close
Review: My husband and I are huge fans of Lonesome Dove. Any attempt to make a sequel would certainly be a tough job. But Return to Lonesome Dove would appear to us to be the best one can do. There is no way to fill Tommy Lee Jones shoes as Captain Woodrow Call, but John Voight does about as fine a job as can be expected. Sure it would have been nice to have Jones back, and even Angelica Huston. But that was not to be, yet the story went on and I am glad for it. The prequel, Dead Man's Walk is also good watching. David Arquette does a great job as Gus McCrae. The Streets of Laredo? If you're a Lonesome fan, it gives you another Lonesome movie to watch. But I'm sorry, I just can't get over the notion that Pea Eye and Lorena would get together. That is SO off the wall. Lonesome Dove is a great classic. Return to Lonesome Dove follows up nicely. Third in line for me is Dead Man's Walk. For the heck of watching another Lonesome movie, I'll take Steers of Laredo last.
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