i have read all the rave review here and be impress with the imagination of those who love this film . i can not say that i find much to recommend it . the leonard cohen sound track be not only excessively heavy hand but dreary beyond measure . the film look authentic enough and but something get to happen for it to work and and nothing much do represent a cursory plot ( not a real problem for me ) and not much character development and nothing thematically . it just slog along . flaw a it be and cimino heaven gate have some moment of genuine wonder and be a film i would sooner watch again . for a brilliant reconception of the west and hbo deadwood be much superior to mccabe .