Diagonaldi Very well executed

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

eryui The plot, being a real story could be interesting, if it not for its silly premises and the execution that, my bad, leave much to desire.The whole movie indeed, between a spit and a gunshot it is not, despite its potential, as gripping or engaging as it could have been. The problem is, as well, that all the premises to this eternal fight, turn around a couple families that look like really a bunch of specious and forceful idiots! Maybe it needed some poetic license to adjust the aims.The script is somehow flat, many secondary characters, impersonal and banal. The photography, that should accompany a now day film of this scale, isn't that great. Locations, sets and costumes, generic and not studied and not really characterized. Many characters so shallow you wont really care about. Kevin Costner is good but, wow, seems like that to enter into his hard soul cowboy character he had to (obviously) spit on the ground every now and then. Doubtless his charismatic presence, greatly helps the entire movie, anyway.Don't get me wrong, this three episode movie still watchable but, it is a shame the fact that with this main cast (Costner, Paxton, Berenger, Boothe, Howard and the beautiful Parish) and this plot, with a bit more attention and build effort, and maybe some gripping poetic licenses, it could have been great. It is just not really well executed to me, despite the now day cinematography possibilities. It looked like made right to the TV without any (but necessary) extra efforts. The fight scenes were often out of focus and barely comprehensible and the whole movie a little stretched and not well edited, so, also the pacing and the linearity are loosed in here.I have read "best miniseries" everywhere but if you watched enough TV series and miniseries you should know there are many better executed and gripping one out there. Cause those sentences and the actual 8.1/10 I really expected much more. It is instead around a barely simple 6-7/10 to me, that precisely, does not mean it is excellent at all.

chew-kevin-m This movie proves that the combinations of: Inbreeding, Moonshine, Grammar School education, bad dental hygiene and lack of gun control, only leads to senseless death, hardship and genocide.Costner's performance is hardly worthy of a once academy award winning director/actor.This really won:TV mini-series; also producer Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Nominated-Satellite Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television FilmUnbelievable..

DKosty123 When you put this into the context that it is a television produced series for cable (History Channel), you might discount the quality of this mini-series. The cast once you get past the main players is not well known but they seem to very much fit their roles. The events are told with an obvious pain taking detail.This series does a lot of things very right. When I watched it on Blue Ray, the DVD really brings out the obvious attention to details used in the production. Considering one of the producers is Kevin Costner, kudos to him and the production crew are really in order.In a way it was disappointing to find out it was not filmed in Kentucky and West Virginia. The stunning visuals more that make up for that. Romania is where a lot of the filming was done and much care was taken in choosing the locations obviously when you watch this.I did not catch the television broadcast of this and am glad I watched it on DVD. It is easier to follow the story, the sound and visuals on the DVD are great, and you can skip the Pawn Stars commercials (right Chumley?).Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton head an outstanding cast and the feud is definitely on. The true saga behind this tale is so sad. So many people die for the worst of reasons. If there is a lesson to be learned here, it is that life is short and precious, try not to let bad blood get in the way if you can help it. The trouble is that in family matters, they only work well if there is trust between the members. Here is the history of mistrust and what it caused in a well told tale. The script is outstanding.

LeonLouisRicci This long stretching out of the infamous feud is not bad just nothing special. There is nothing here cinematically, literary, or artistically that hasn't been seen before. It breaks no new ground and is an interesting piece of history but doesn't have enough diversity or depth to allow for such length. Therefore, the story and its machinations becomes repetitive and if there isn't anything in the style or packaging to endear it flounders and fails.The performances are professional, but nothing to get all riled up about. Revenge, hate, misunderstandings, ignorance, blood lust, and not the least, stubbornness are all here in abundance but it is nothing we would not expect from the backwoods at a time of little education and much clannishness.One historical theory...one wonders if Hatfield would not have deserted during the war in front of Mccoy, who stuck out "the cause" to the end and ended up being mistreated in a POW camp...would he have been as bitter towards his friend? That seemed to be where the seed of hate was planted.