I rather enjoyed this pretty ordinary western directed and co-written by star Ed Harris (only his second directorial foray after 2000’s Pollock). While Harris is good, Viggo is great as his deputy in the law starved town of Appaloosa. When these two arrive in town the baddies skedaddle except ultra baddie Randall Bragg, played excellently by Jeremy Irons. Most of the film centers around trying to bring Bragg to justice, but there is a good deal of character work done in Harris’s relationship with a local woman played somewhat softly by Renee Zellwegger. For better or worse it is certainly more traditional feeling than last year’s great 3:10 to Yuma. While not everything here works and it can be a bit predictable, it is still a fun film and in a year short on Westerns (after last year’s heavy load), it isn’t a bad offering.