Is it really that bad?

Im a third way into the movie, I got it only because I set trailers for films I liked into a folder and this one's trailer I had saved previously. So the trailer must have been good. But so far the film is boring as hell as people on here have been noting. I came onto the boards to find exactly this. Well, not sure if Im going to even finish this film now. The only positive is Natalie Portman is damn gorgeous in this for having a wild west look in it. But she looks pretty much amazing in every film to me. Her looks alone cant justify me finishing this slow ass movie however :X
Just to be clear I dont mind slow movies, The Hateful Eight was a kind of slow intense film that you just cant look away from, it was fantastic. But slow films need to have that special something to make them work. Here they just dont have it.

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It's painfully boring and slow-moving.

It slow paced like a western should be. You'll not find any annoyingly fast modern direction/editing here. Beautifully shot (and you are given time to reflect on that beauty). Well acted. Story is OK.

It's a perfectly fine western. The rating is a joke.

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Yes, I agree that the film's title is highly misleading in suggesting that the lead female character played a major role in a fierce fight to defend herself and possibly those she loved. Instead, Jane was not involved in one single standoff gunfight with any man, and largely depended on two men at various times for her own protection. At the end it was just the familiar Western in which a woman sought help from a former lover to protect her family and got reunited with him at the end.

It was not a bad film, though the flashbacks (in my view far too numerous and coming without warning) led to confusion rather than illumination and only slowed down the story. There was little that was new in the film either in the approach, characterization and (if any) message. It looked like a generic Western coming from the 1950s, and had the story been told linearly, it could have easily fitted into a 50 minutes TV episode.

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