Cert: 15 cert
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: Mr. LaBoeuf mentions to Mattie that he thought about giving her a kiss when he saw her sleeping. He also slaps in slightly sexualized way.
A man considers raping a young woman.
Violence & Gore: Rooster kills more than his fair share. Before he joins Mattie, we learn that he killed 23 people as a marshal ("I never shot anybody I didn't have to," he swears), and he adds another half-dozen to his tally before the credits roll. One takedown involves a point-blank bullet to someone's head, and we see blood spray against the wall. Mattie and LaBoeuf both shoot folks too.
One bad guy kills another (who had already been shot in the leg by Rooster) to prevent him from revealing too much information. Before he stabs him in the chest, he cuts off the victim's fingers. (We see a couple of them on the table.) Mattie and Rooster find a body (strung up in a tree) being gnawed on by a vulture. Rooster tells Mattie to climb up and cut the thing down. Of course it lands with a thud on its head. We see three people hanged, and they drop with jarring thunks.
When Mattie braves the river to join LaBoeuf and Rooster, LaBoeuf pushes her down and paddles her by way of punishmentfirst with a bare hand and then with a nearby stick. He doesn't stop until Rooster points a gun at him. It's the mildest bit of trouble Mattie finds herself in for a good long while. Before her journey is done, she's been hit, shoved and kidnapped. An outlaw grinds his boot into her face while pointing a gun at her. Chaney puts a blade to her throat. Rooster roughly knocks around a couple of kids who've been tormenting a donkey.
Horses get shot during a battle. There's talk of women and children massacred during the Civil War. Rooster promises Mattie that he'll flay the soles of her father's killer's feet if it will make her feel better. LaBoeuf is bound by a lasso, and dragged around, which causes him to bite his tongue. We Rooster reaching in to his mouth, with blood oozing from the sides (the scene is dark, so some of the blood in hard to see).
Profanity: A couple uses of "son-of-a-b**ch" and a few uses each of "hell" and "damn" ("damn" is paired with "God" half a dozen times). There is one F-word at the end of the film but is hard to hear as the man who delivers it is mumbling and talking fast.
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Rooster drinks alcohol to excess in several scenes. LaBoeuf smokes a pipe, and Rooster has Mattie roll a cigarette for him. He is also seen smoking cigarettes in a few scenes
Frightening/Intense Scenes A man is found hanged in the woods. A bird is pecking on him and his eyeball is missing.
A man cuts off another man's fingers, which are shown breifly lying on a table with blood around them.
Story : Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) joins an aging U.S. marshal (Jeff Bridges) and another lawman (Matt Damon) in tracking her father's killer into hostile Indian territory in Joel and Ethan Coen's adaptation of Charles Portis' original novel. Sticking more closely to the source material than the 1969 feature adaptation starring Western icon John Wayne, the Coens' True Grit tells the story from the young girl's perspective
Likes : This film was OK i'm not much in to western films but the story line was solid, there was a few funny moments before it got real serious but it wasn't a bad film.You spend most of the time in True Grit getting to know both Mattie Ross and Rooster Cogburn along with the brief relationship they had. We follow Mattie Ross as it's proved time and time again that she's incredibly intelligent for a fourteen year old and, unless guns are involved, is more than capable of taking care of herself. For her first film, Hailee Steinfeld is impressive in an extraordinary kind of way. Her stubborn attitude is portrayed in a way that makes Mattie come off as a strong woman character who is still too young to be saying or partaking in the events that unfold. Rooster Cogburn is another memorable character to add to Jeff Bridges resume that he portrays to drunken excellence. The one down side is that his rambling is incoherent at times. Imagine having a wad of snuff in one cheek and a mouthful of cotton balls in the other while trying to talk and that's how Cogburn sounds more often than not. But what you are capable of understanding is pretty brilliant whether Cogburn is telling a story from his past and letting his dry humor shine through, trying to convince LaBoeuf to let him rip out his tongue, or drunkenly trying to shoot cornbread he threw into the air to prove that he's a good shot, Cogburn is a rather colorful character that Bridges brilliantly portrays. One man that may get overlooked is Barry Pepper. He doesn't receive a lot of screen time as Lucky Ned Pepper, but he certainly makes a lasting impression with what little time he does have on screen.
Dislike : the only fact about this film i didn't like was it was a little slow i found my self falling asleep it wasn't fast paced enough for me personally.
Overall : if you like the good old fashioned western film then your like this film,but you really have to like western film to enjoy this film.
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars for entertainment, 5 out of 10 for story line & action.
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