A routine Western dragged down by a sleepy Brando turn.

It's impossible to offer a full-throated recommendation of The Appaloosa. It's beautifully shot but there's not much else to glean from it.

The Appaloosa combines a British feeling for style and manners with that wide-open North American vigor. But the snow scenes are strictly from Canada.

Never seemed anything but a pointless horse tale told in a style that was too mannered.