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	DVD & Movie Reviews: American Outlaws
		In the case of American Outlaws the bankable bit is yet to be seen, but the sex appeal of the young stars is hard to deny.
		American Outlaws is sort of a Young Guns 3 - with Billy the Kid replaced by Jesse James, the bankrobber and killer - who is as large in American folklore as Ned Kelly is Down Under.
		American Outlaws is not a history lesson, but it is a really good action adventure with some damn fine gunfights and a lot of humour.
	www.webwombat.com.au /entertainment/dvds/amoutlaws.htm (460 words)

	American Outlaws Movie Review
		American Outlaws is an attempt at a western for the 21st century.
		American Outlaws is a very, and I do mean VERY, loose interpretation of the story of Jesse James, portrayed here by Colin Farrell.
		As perhaps the most famous outlaw of the old west, there have been many stories written about Jesse James and his gang, so over the years it has become a bit unclear whether he was a good guy, a Robin Hood type character, or just a cold blooded killer.
	www.moviesforguys.com /action/reviews/americanoutlaws.shtml (642 words)

	Reel Criticism - Collin Farrell in American Outlaws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The critical trashing “American Outlaws” that littered newspapers was completely lost upon the audience, because we just do not see the just cause to shit on this film because of a few factors we will get into later.
		The bottom line with "American Outlaws" is that if you are looking for a film with high energy, good acting, quick pacing, then you have found one of the best films of 2001.
		There is no hesitation in writing that "American Outlaws" is simply an entertaining film from start to finish.
	www.reelcriticism.com /reviews/review_americanoutlaws.html (1133 words)

	American Outlaws review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"American Outlaws" started out as "Jesse James" but during the filming in the summer of 2000, the title was changed.
		Purported to be a story of outlaw Jesse James, "American Outlaws" opens with a ludicrous battle between nattily attired Confederates and breathtakingly armed Union soldiers.
		Heavy-handed costumes (do outlaws really wear floor-length winter coats in 100 degree Texas summers?), over-done make up (Jesse's stubble looks like it was applied with metal shavings and a magnetic wand), and pyrotechnics worthy of a 2000 spy thriller, doesn't help with the realism.
	www.timothydalton.com /american_outlaws_review.htm (852 words)

	He Said, She Said: 'American Outlaws' :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		American Outlaws is yet another retelling of the legendary Jesse James and his wild ways.
		Farrell wasn't the problem in American Outlaws, nor were the other actors, as the acting was generally OK. Farrell's smoldering good looks will earn him more and more female fans the more and more he is on the big screen, a fact that I am sure Kit's about to attest to.
	www.hollywood.com /news/detail/article/473927 (653 words)

	American Outlaws by H. Arthur Scott Trask
		In The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), the hero (Clint Eastwood) rides with an old Cherokee chief (Dan George); in Jeremiah Johnson, the hero (Robert Redford) lives in peace with the Crow Indians (until the U.S. army disrupts things) and marries the comely daughter of a French-speaking Flathead chieftain.
		Americans seem to be incapable of viewing themselves as anything other than outraged innocents and noble altruists, hated because they are so good, so rich, and so free.
		The film American Outlaws (2001) directed by Les Mayfield, and starring Irish actor Colin Farrell, with supporting roles by Scott Caan (the son of actor James Caan), Timothy Dalton, and Kathy Bates, did not receive much critical attention or praise.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/trask6.html (1990 words)

	American Outlaws (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I knew not to expect much from AMERICAN OUTLAWS.
		But I was expecting to at least have a fun time, even if it was another film that portrayed real-life bad guys as the "heroes" of the movie.
		I'm not sure why, but this film was just bland most of the time, and the actors (despite some talented ones in the parts) just seemed to walk through the performances, as if they were simply trying to just get the whole thing over with.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0244000 (596 words)

	Filmtracks: American Outlaws (Trevor Rabin)
		American Outlaws: (Trevor Rabin) Let's try to put aside the complete stupidity of the film before discussing this score...
		He is hired to projects like American Outlaws because of his talents for using a small budget to create a large sounding score (to the ears of the general audience, that is).
		The acoustics and percussion of American Outlaws continue to amaze in their lack of creativity and/or maturation over the past four years.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/american_outlaws.html (1430 words)

	American Outlaws
		The outlaw has often been a folk hero for the masses at the very least since Robin Hood and his band of merry men roamed Sherwood Forest and thwarted the evil plans of the Sheriff of Nottingham around the time of the Crusades.
		"American Outlaw" forgoes any attempt to tell the true story of the James brothers and their gang, opting instead to adapt the "legend" in this latest telling of American history.
		"American Outlaws" tag line, "bad is good again," should tell you something about the nature of the story.
	www.reelingreviews.com /americanoutlaws.htm (1338 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - American Outlaws
		Instead, American Outlaws is a joyous romp that has a lot of gunfights, buildings exploding from dynamite, and Ali Larter standing wet and sumptuous in a riverbed.
		American Outlaws is one of those rare guilty pleasures that shouldn't have been fun, but somehow it just is. Like David Cassidy and the mayonnaise on Wendy's hamburgers, I just can't explain the appeal—American Outlaws is just mindless fun.
		American Outlaws is a case in point: Warner has put a lot of effort into this DVD of American Outlaws.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/americanoutlaws.shtml (1416 words)

	American Outlaws DVD Review
		Although the cunning and patient Detective Pinkerton (Timothy Dalton) is in charge of the railroad's resistance, the biggest threat to the gang's survival may be an emerging leadership power struggle between Jesse and Cole.
		Of course for all you western historians out there one would say that American Outlaws is a loose interpretation of the story of Jesse James, portrayed here by Colin Farrell.
		American Outlaws provided some really awesome over the top action sequences, and if you like six shooter “shoot outs”, this will do the trick.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/a/americanoutlaws.htm (926 words)

	Outlaw and Lawman History
		Mission Statement: NOLA is a non-profit, educational organization whose aim is to discover, share, and promote the true stories of outlaws and lawmen in the frontier West.
		Recognizing that the hundreds of books and films produced over the years are often fiction and confuses true history, NOLA members take pride in sharing and recording true facts of the old West that are often more interesting than fictional accounts.
		NOLA publishes a regular newsletter (part of which is available online as the NOLA Gazette) for its membership through which NOLA members share information about their research projects and are posted on numerous old West events and activities of interest across the nation.
	www.outlawlawman.com (447 words)

	American Outlaws
		American Outlaws falls squarely into the latter category.
		American Outlaws takes the bare bones of the Jesse James mythology and turns him into a cowboy Robin Hood, robbing the rich and giving to the poor.
		Only Colin Farrell deserves some attention, and he is the one redeeming factor in American Outlaws.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/american_outlaws.html (471 words)

	American Outlaws (2001) - Ninth Symphony Films Review
		But that doesn't mean they didn't try their hardest to put a nice twist on the story of Jessie James and his gang.
		In this version of twisted history, James and his friends rob trains and become outlaws because of the big bad railroad and the men who run it want to buy the gang's family farms.
		So, as a final blow to the egos of the filmmakers who made American Outlaws, although this film has its entertaining moments, this movie really isn't something worth paying a bunch for to see in the theater.
	regencylady.tripod.com /site/filmreviews/americanoutlaws.html (815 words)

	American Outlaws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Outlaws," Warner Bros.' new action-comedy directed by Les Mayfield ("Blue Streak") and produced by James G. Robinson ("Young Guns"), should be gunned down by the competition, and it shows again the sad state of the western, at least in the once-mighty realm of theatrical features.
		The bad guys in "Outlaws" are a fictitious railroad baron (Harris Yulin) and his employees, who are ruthless in evicting farm owners in the path of an intercontinental line.
		What robs "Outlaws" of its best chances to succeed, given script and cast, is Mayfield's flat-footed direction that strives for and achieves little beyond cliches.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1017496 (671 words)

	Jesse James Page Index - St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway - Jackson, Missouri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Seven outlaws lay in wait on a curve six miles west of Adair, Iowa.
		The outlaws promptly lined up the dazed passengers and robbed them of their valuables.
		To their surprise, the outlaws discovered that the gold shipment was not on the train.
	www.rosecity.net /trains/james_gang.html (1319 words)

	American Outlaws
		If you can forgive the utter disregard for historical accuracy, "American Outlaws" is a pretty entertaining flick.
		In the early minutes of "American Outlaws," a dirty line of Confederate infantry trudge along a dusty road.
		My point is this: Don't expect this tale of the James Gang to bear much resemblance to real history or the real story of the outlaws who robbed their way to folk-hero status in the post-war West.
	www.roanoke.com /roatimes/news/story116618.html (458 words)

	American Outlaws by Trevor Rabin @ Cinemusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The same approach is employed for AMERICAN OUTLAWS, with Rabin tossing in a close-cousin of the electric violin "Grace" theme from ARMAGEDDON to balance things out.
		You'd be hard pressed to pick an element in AMERICAN OUTLAWS that hasn't popped up in one of his prior scores.
		A big and blustery version of the AMERICAN OUTLAWS main theme can be heard in track 4 "Perfect Outlaws".
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2001/american_outlaws.html (839 words)

	AMERICAN OUTLAWS - DVD
		American Outlaws does have a couple of decent John Woo-lite action sequences--each of them stolen from a better film (Once Upon a Time in the West, The Wild Bunch, The Long Riders, Silverado) so as to turn American Outlaws into an extended generation-next trailer for good movies.
		American Outlaws isn't nearly as bad as you'd think: it's agreeably ludicrous, only Larter overtly offends, and a couple of the recycled action scenes are agreeably sadistic.
		For all the weakness of the film, Warner DVD's beautiful 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation of American Outlaws is a showcase piece for its audio/visual transfer and its loaded special features.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/americanoutlaws.htm (895 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - Events from 1870 to 1880
		The act is justified as a way to avoid further misunderstandings in treaty negotiations, where whites have too often wrongly assumed that a tribal chief is also that tribe's chief of state.
		To complete its consolidation of federally-funded scientific exploration in the West, Congress creates the United States Bureau of Ethnology to coordinate study of the region's native peoples and complete a record of their cultures before they vanish under the pressure of expanding white settlement.
		Directed by John Wesley Powell, the Bureau of Ethnology launches an ambitious program to document the culture and society of Native Americans, sending one of its first field teams to Zuni Pueblo, where ethnologist Frank Hamilton Cushing anticipates the methods of 20th century anthropology by becoming a member of the Zuni community.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/events/1870_1880.htm (2244 words)

	DVD REVIEW: "AMERICAN OUTLAWS"
		Now, students of all ages will get the chance to learn all about him in "American Outlaws," a moderately engaging yarn that benefits from a terrific lead performance, all while stretching historical facts to tell its story.
		Whatever the case, the characters here seem too preoccupied with having fun, appearing as charming rogues, and/or robbing banks to take the time to remember the dead, let alone grieve for them once the immediate scene is done.
		American Outlaws is now available for purchase by clicking here.
	www.screenit.com /dvd/2001/american_outlaws.html (1145 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "American Outlaws" review (2001) Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali Larter, Timothy Dalton, Kathy Bates
		"American Outlaws" is the slick Generation Y model from this blueprint, starring scruffy baby-face Colin Farrell ("Tigerland") as a Jesse James who robs banks to hurt Yankee railroad barons that done killed his maw when she wouldn't sell the family farm so they could lay down tracks.
		Directed in paint-by-numbers fashion by Les Mayfield ("Blue Streak"), "American Outlaws" has an undeniable spark of charm and a few snappy lines of dialogue.
		That kind of sloppy, lethargic storytelling is par for the course in "American Outlaws," which can't even get through a shootout without employing not only the requisite trick-shooting Western conventions (which one expects -- even anticipates), but a slew of truly tiresome action flick proclivities to boot.
	www.splicedonline.com /01reviews/amoutlaws.html (552 words)

	'American Outlaws'
		"American Outlaw" is the latest insult to its good name, not because it's a terrible movie (it's not), but because it shows no respect for the grand old cowboy tradition.
		The people behind "Outlaw" -- director Les Mayfield ("Flubber") and writers Roderick Taylor ("Kenny Rogers As The Gambler, Part III") and John Rogers ("Rush Hour II")-- thought it would be cool to dress a bunch of 21st-century hunks up in 19th-century cowboy gear, stick them on horses and have them shoot people.
		Mel Brooks' movie was a crude send-up of the whole genre, but "American Outlaws" just gives us the beans and expects us to do the rest.
	www.postgazette.com /movies/20010817outlaws0817p5.asp (465 words)

	American Outlaws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		American Outlaws : Returning home after the Civil War, young guns Jesse James (Colin Farrell) and Cole Younger (Scott Cann) discover the new enemy - corrupt Rock Northern Railroad.
		Soon Jesse, Cole and their rough-and-ready band of outlaw ranchers ride to the rescue of the downtrodden folks of Liberty, Missouri in a thrilling all out civil war battle against the railroad barons.
		American Outlaws is an all-action comedy Western packed with exciting bank robberies, high speed train chases and lashings of gunplay.
	rage.v1h.com /showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=7984 (571 words)

	AMERICAN OUTLAWS (PG-13): ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report MAR21055
		Some of the truth about the content of American Outlaws included 35 uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary [1Pet.
		Not so much graphic as in gore and blood but in the sheer volume of "lesser" issues of violence and crime in order to get the "effect" of R in a rating of PG-13 (see http://www.capalert/.com/r-13.htm>.
		Indeed, the nefarious outlaw Jesse James was portrayed as quite the good guy: the "Robin Hood" of Liberty, Missouri.
	www.capalert.com /capreports/americanoutlaws.htm (1665 words)

	Henry McCarty: The Wild West's "Billy the Kid" by Joseph Geringer
		Billy is supposed to have killed his first men near the Guadalupe Mountains in 1876 when he mistook a couple of reservation Apaches for (as he said) "unfriendlies".
		American tempers were singed over the recent eradication of George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry at the Little Big Horn; the white man, brooding the loss, hated anything Indian.
		Incited by the massacre that spilled across the nation's headlines, and taking the two wandering Apaches as nomads, Billy learned later that the soldiery was looking for the man who shot the peaceable people at a time when the district representatives were trying hard to keep the Southwestern border blood-free of racial animosity.
	www.crimelibrary.com /americana/kid/2.htm (1671 words)

	American Outlaws (2001): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Not only does American Outlaws distort history, but the filmmakers have created a dull, one-dimensional pop icon out of James' complex character and legend.
		It's too bad, because outlaws are, by their very nature, glamorous movie subjects.
		American Outlaws is one of my favorite movies.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/americanoutlaws (927 words)

	American Outlaws (2001): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Now comes American Outlaws, proof that even the B Western is dead.
		As a western, American Outlaws is an utter failure.
		The 36th bigscreen version of the exploits of the James-Younger Gang is one of the least convincing.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/americanoutlaws (981 words)

	African Americans and the Old West
		The Native Americans, the outlaws, the migrants, the cowboys, the missionaries, and African Americans all had their reasons for roaming the plains of the Old West.
		Many African Americans saw this as their opportunity to escape the harsh racist views of the South with the intent of establishing a new economic base in the West.
		McCabe, an African American who served as the state auditor in Kansas for four years and as the state auditor in Oklahoma for ten years, decided to seize the moment of opportunity by purchasing 320 acres of land whereby the town of Langston, Oklahoma was established in 1890.
	www.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/library/african/west/west.htm (12045 words)

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