While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
Sometime later, following his recovery, Creighton returns to Omaha, Nebraska and plans the construction of a telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City, Utah. Facing considerable opposition to the line from Confederate soldiers, Indians, and outlaws, Creighton elicits the help of his sister Sue (Virginia Gilmore), foreman Pat Grogan (Minor Watson), and assistant Homer Kettle (Chill Wills).
Looking to put his outlaw past behind him, Shaw arrives at Creighton's Western Union office looking for honest work and is hired as a scout by Grogan who is unaware of his past. Creighton recognizes him among the men and allows him to stay despite his suspicions. Creighton also hires tenderfoot Richard Blake (Robert Young), a Harvard-educated engineer as a favor to Blake's father. Shaw and Blake are both attracted to Sue and vie for her attention, but their romantic rivalry is cut short when construction of the telegraph line starts on July 4, 1861.
After work commences on the line, one of the men is killed apparently by a mysterious band of cattle-rustling Indians. Unconvinced that Indians are to blame, Shaw rides out to investigate and follows the rustlers' trail to the camp of Jack Slade, a former friend and cohort, whose gang committed the killing disguised as Indians—the gang Shaw left following his last bank robbery. Slade reveals that they are working for the Confederacy to disrupt Western Union because they believe the telegraph service will help the Union. Shaw rides away and returns to the line. Not wanting to turn in his former friends, Shaw tells Creighton that a large band of Dakota Indians stole the cattle, and recommends that they simply replace the herd and not risk a fight with the Indians.
Sometime later, a confrontation takes place between men working on the forward line and a band of drunken Indians. When one of the Indians tries to steal some equipment, a nervous Blake shoots him, ignoring Shaw's order to remain calm. After word arrives that the main camp is under attack by other Indians, the Western Union men rush back to help with the defense. At the main camp, Slade's men, who are again disguised as Indians, steal the Western Union horses. The company discover the ruse when one of the wounded Indians turns out to be a white man. Forced to buy back their stolen horses from Slade, Creighton becomes suspicious of Shaw's involvement, especially when he admits to knowing the gang.
Soon the U.S. Army arrives and announces the Indians have now refused to allow the telegraph lines to go through their territory in response to Blake's shooting of the drunken Indian. Creighton, Shaw, and Blake ride out to convince Chief Spotted Horse to allow them to build the line through Indian territory, even though the man Blake wounded was Spotted Horse's son. Creighton is finally able to persuade the Indians to allow them passage, and work continues until the company approaches Salt Lake City.
Sometime later, Shaw receives word that Jack Slade wants to meet with him. On the way to see Slade, Shaw is captured and bound by Slade's men. Slade says his group is going to burn down the Western Union camp and they don't want Shaw to interfere. After Slade and his men ride off, Shaw escapes from his ropes but arrives back too late to prevent the fire. He helps rescue some of the Western Union men from the flames and burns his hands in the process.
After the fire, Creighton confronts Shaw for an explanation, but Shaw does not reveal what he knows and is fired by Creighton. As Shaw leaves the camp, he tells Blake that Slade is actually Shaw's brother and that he, Shaw, will find Slade's gang and stop them from interfering with the telegraph project. Shaw rides off and finds Slade and his men in a nearby town. At the barber shop, Shaw confronts his brother, whose gun is concealed under the barber's sheet. Slade shoots Shaw through the sheet. Shaw fights back in spite of his wound, killing some of the gang members, and then dies. Blake arrives and continues the fight with Slade who dies from his wounds. Soon after, the Western Union line is completed and the workers celebrate. When Sue laments the absence of Shaw, Creighton tells her that Shaw can hear them.
只有一点感想，Chloe Zhao基本不懂什么是类型片，把爆米花电影当成鸡汤风格的社会议题说明书写作了。对如何设计延伸升华戏剧性张力和如何通过节奏把握观众心理一窍不通，剧作技巧和动作场景调度技巧处在大学二年级水平，而且结尾还偷偷模仿了徐克周星驰的《西游伏妖篇》的概念设计，欺负老外观众没渠道看中国商业片。
“宇宙很大很大，地球就是宇宙的一粒沙，我们人类连一粒沙都没有”，那么永恒族就是两颗沙吧。非要说夹带私货，那可能是各葫芦娃的功能设定和组队过程吧，随后在平克·弗洛伊德的TIME倒计时中，瑟后飞不出如来佛的五指山，伊卡洛斯像吃兔头般掰着变异族激光烧烤。随队纪录片成分如果大一点，或许能喜欢一些吧。
导演烂，编剧更烂，就连抠MEW的造型也抠的一塌糊涂；这一部就很好的体现了87团队的弊端。而且这编剧说真的，我觉得多点感受生活、少坐在台前靠着意淫写剧本；网飞我记得不是有剧本审查部门嘛？这他大爷的到底审的是什么鬼啊？？？真不愧是互联网公司。我推荐一部叫做《怒火攻心》的电影，拍的没这么没脾气也没这么臭装逼。
D＋/ 剧本好多有趣的东西没更进一步拍出来太可惜了。永恒族既是旁观者，又是历史的制造者。作为旁观者，他们与电影观众处于同一位置，他们的目光无法让他们超离于虚拟造像之外；作为制造者，他们的技术操纵既不能无虞于责任，也不能形成真正的“介入”。那么凝视和操纵的中顿点何在，介入如何以无限的创造方式发生？答案或许埋藏在那被冰封的巨神雕像之中——艺术生发于造神的停滞与属人世界的开启（在其中创造与拯救浑然不分），而这一重扭转重新定义了“自然”的所在。在这种对虚构之无能与创造之大能的袒露中，赵婷离开了《无依之地》里那片完全自然也因而完全虚伪的土地，成为观众-导演的生成的中介者。羽翼融化的伊卡洛斯会降回尘世吗？
可能是期待值被口碑拉太低了，以至于看完觉得没那么糟糕？需要讲述的人物众多+导演的风格表达/融入+超英电影模式，相互给压力，整体感觉还是比较赶的，走马观花。
什么PPT电影😅 就为了听两句四妹声音 受这罪😇😇😇 泰伦斯马力克生不逢时啊，变个性换个色放现在不得拿个全宇宙大满贯？你坞烂透了
霓虹色调；想喝boom boom lemon
选角无所谓，但是剧情在神学、神话上的想象力为零，人物弧光为负，搞了一个僵死的冯诺伊曼机体系，圆环套圆环，且从头到尾打杂兵还内讧的结局，也太差劲了吧！比美国众神都差远了！这就是政治正确的魅力吗？我不理解
高概念高技巧高审美但有点过时又离地的超英电影…硬要讲人性但角色动机让人难以信服，硬要讲爱情但男女主之间毫无火花😩，关系搞得太复杂，如果非要带出“不要背叛你的家人”的话不如把大家写成7个葫芦娃还好些…以前我总相信只要审美到了片子怎么都不会太差…但这片后半部分告诉我们有时候审美也许不要高出文本太多才好🙄。
然后好像很多人都说女主面瘫？我反而觉得她演得挺说服力，所以才能够带动电影的情感线（爱情友情和对人类的大爱）而不出戏，而且她微表情演绎很多也不面瘫吧...我还觉得没有女主的演绎，就按剧本逻辑来的话可能会更崩
帅！霓虹风味十足，有好多场景感觉像是在看银翼杀手，硬汉女主人设讨喜，动作戏有点昆汀的味道。剧情中规中矩，常规复仇动作片套路，结尾反转意料之中，没有太多特别之处。7.0分
这难道不是CC的Timeless Children吗？ CC真是超前咧。笑话都不好笑 比CC的还要尬齁。比CC还要chat chat chat，连说教部分都那么CC，确定剧本的草稿不是CC写的嘛。比基尼试验导致的灾难在这些永恒族面前就是不值一提吧，扣分。反派不是经纪人，扣分。最后居然比魔法特写的东西还要让我无法共情也是挺厉害的咯。
很美国很血腥很爽还有刀穿脑袋刀劈脑袋，问题在于日本妞太丑了，丑到我晚饭吐了出来，所以三颗星。
抛开所有的周知的政治因素，片子本身两颗星足够了。
低配版kill bill，人物剧情缺乏逻辑
在上面那个灵堂不远处，写着几个大字。是拉贝说的：
《永恆族》的時間線的剪接與回憶片段就是踢一步郁一郁，冗長。那些彩蛋與結尾要為下一部鋪墊，有點肉酸。鏡面很靚嗎？地貌很靚嗎？比它靚的大有片在，似睇電視劇講口水野，然後打打打，打的場面都唔好睇啊。勝在賣賣綽頭，同性戀、小不點、殘疾人、女人救世，左翼思想電影，就係而家電影的價值觀同多元文化炒埋一碟。
看有人称赞女性视角，这是视角么，这是女性意淫，人也杀了人，队友也都干了，临门一脚因为是前女友就放弃了？？？最后跑去太阳自杀，这是在逗我？两星全给动作场面和画面
着实被恶心到了，诸如唯一的印度裔就是逗逼，唯一的黑人是gay这样的设定就不说了；广岛核爆痛哭流涕忏悔的那一幕，我特么都要yue了，感觉某中国导演为了迎合西方白左的圣母心已经不遗余力了，本想打一星，多一星送给特效组的蘑菇云，做的真他妈漂亮。
选角无所谓，但是剧情在神学、神话上的想象力为零，人物弧光为负，搞了一个僵死的冯诺伊曼机体系，圆环套圆环，且从头到尾打杂兵还内讧的结局，也太差劲了吧！比美国众神都差远了！这就是政治正确的魅力吗？我不理解
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