3:10 To Yuma (2007)
Christian Bale plays a drought ruined rancher who helps take a dangerous outlaw to justice by transporting him to the town of Contention where he will board the 3:10 train to Yuma prison.
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Logan (2017) director James Mangold takes what is in reality a rather plodding western from 1957, updates it with new scenes of intensity and creates one of the best remakes in the western genre if not in cinema itself, leaving the original film flailing about in the dust.
Mangold isn't alone in this achievement of course. He's helped by a sharp script, a memorable score, and brilliant performances from the charismatic Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Logan Lerman, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol and a superb Ben Foster as Crowe's fearsome right hand man who is as wild as a rabid dog.
As well as some tense action sequences the film focuses on complex moral issues especially where Crowe's villain is concerned culminating in a surprising finale.