Superb acting in a great Western

Just watched it today and had no idea what it was about. It was amazingly good. I would go so far as to say this was not a western. The scale of being along as a group of only a few people was really driven home by the setting and interactions. The movie didn't need to take the usual route of explaining everyones backstory, instead using the situation to let us get to know the people involved.

The only thing I'd disagree with you on is Fox. I thought he played an arrogant man who held himself above and apart from everyone else. Other actors could have done it giving us more charisma so we attacked more to the character, but this seemed one of those movies where they let us feel what it would be like to live with his arrogance chaffing at the collar every day. Yet he still risked his life to help.