After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.
Whatever feminist angle the film might have once aspired to is lost in its listless shuffle.
– Glenn Kenny,
New York Times,
29 Jan 2016
fresh:
As stripped-down, revisionist Westerns go, "Jane Got A Gun" may not have reinvented the wagon wheel, but it rolls out as a sturdy, well-crafted genre piece despite its rocky road to the screen.
– Michael Rechtshaffen,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan 2016
rotten:
At times, Jane Got A Gun comes perilously close to staying passive-to becoming A Gun Was Gotten By Jane.
– Jesse Hassenger,
AV Club,
30 Jan 2016
fresh:
O'Connor's movie is too sentimental and self-serious to add much of note to the mythos, but Portman embodies her character's grief no less movingly than her forebears.
– Michael Nordine,
Village Voice,
3 Feb 2016
rotten:
Feels as though everyone involved forced themselves to grit their teeth and get on with it.