Amazon.com Essentials:
Director Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill)
clearly set out to make an old-fashioned Western, but he couldn't help
bringing a hip, self-conscious attitude to the
proceedings. Silverado thus finds its own funky tone--sometimes
rousing, sometimes winking. Four cowpokes converge on a little Western
burg called Silverado; they're played by Kevin Kline (a distinctly
modern kind of Western hero), Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, and the rowdy
young Kevin Costner. Kasdan peppers the somewhat generic action with
smart dialogue and a parade of quirky supporting players, including
John Cleese as a sheriff who seems to have stepped straight from a
Monty Python sketch into an Old West saloon. Bruce Broughton supplies
the music, a real throwback to the glory days of thundering Western
themes. One thing's for sure: Silverado's a lot more fun than
the later Kasdan-Costner Western, Wyatt
Earp. --Robert Horton
