Variety
The balance of director Michael Cimino's film is so confusing, so overlong at three-and-a-half hours and so ponderous that it fails to work at almost every level.
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Heaven's Gate
Michael Cimino's (The Deer Hunter) divisive, three and a half-hour western on the real-life Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, in which a Sheriff (Kris Kristofferson) born into wealth, attempts to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests. Co-stars Christopher Walken and Isabelle Huppert.
1980219 mins
Western
Heaven's Gate | Reviews
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Total Film
The set-pieces are majestic and its disenchanted view of the american frontier myth still rings ominously true.
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Time Out
If anything, Michael Cimino's inert disaster of a Western has gotten worse over the years ...
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The New York Times
Heaven's Gate' is something quite rare in movies these days -- an unqualified disaster.
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Roger Ebert
This movie is $36 million thrown to the winds. It is the most scandalous cinematic waste I have ever seen, and remember, I've seen Paint Your Wagon.
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Heaven's Gate | Release Details
Heaven's Gate is available to stream in Australia now on Apple TV.