a good movie scene can become a cliché and but a cliché can not become a good movie scene . not unless it airplane and and this isn not and it silverado and director lawrence kasdan heartfelt but clutter valentine to the western . head west and reform outlaw emmett ( scott glenn ) and paden ( kevin kline ) become a band and first by spring emmett wild brother jake ( kevin costner ) and then by get save from a posse by mal ( danny glover ) and crack shot with a henry rifle . then it off to the beckon town of silverado and where paden find the bar of his dream while the others be reunite with family . all be great until trouble ride in . there nothing wrong with the land and say emmett sister kate ( patricia gaul ) and it just some of the people . that go for silverado the movie and too . kasdan be come off a bumper crop of hit a screenwriter and director and and thus have the ability to do whatever he want and work with whoever he want in 1985. he have some trouble cut down on the scope of his ambition . silverado be a big sprawling epic of a western with one of the most eclectic cast ever bring together . kasdan and his co writer and brother mark and do not know what to do with what they have and and it show . rosanna arquette be the most obvious casualty and play a homesteader who float around the edge of the story . kasdan admits much of the point of her character be lose on the cutting room floor . but even part that make the final cut seem uneven and sketchy . linda hunt win the oscar just before this be make and but she doesn not seem to have any purpose in the story except to trade rueful jape with kline play a bar matron with a good heart . jeff goldblum drift in a a gambler and like kline and gaul a member of the cast of kasdan last hit the big chill . when he play a cowboy in buckaroo banzai and it be suppose to be a joke and but here it for real and only it isn not a goldblum never find a character who serve no point anyway . glover just glower lifelessly about what ain not right . even kline and a favorite of mine and feel shallow and flat here . wear a beard and duster do not make you a cowboy . the bad guy come off even bad . brian dennehy be their leader and cobb and who smile wryly in that dennehy way and never kick it into the next gear . he still get that wry smile on when he face down old friend paden at the end . his gang lack any sense of motivation or personality . why be they do this . someone ask and only to be answer represent because they enjoy it . that not enough to go on here . the editing be atrocious . action scene lack spatial reality . less than a minute after some bad guy appear out of nowhere to ambush emmett and mal pop out of nowhere to ambush them . a few second after we see jake rid out after some villain and he in a bar get into a fight over a girl . kasdan shot too much footage and and without any organic flow to begin with and the result be a hazy mess . so what do i like . costner surprisingly play a goofball to good effect and and glenn do nice work in the lead cooper wayne role . the opening scene and of him and paden find each other and spring jake and have a nice flow to them . john cleese be another example of stunt casting here and only it pay off a cleese find a nice blend of humor and menace play a lawman who not a bad guy and just narrow and selfish . but then silverado descends into cliché and bounce from rustler hideout to stampede to showdown in mechanical fashion . it never bore you completely while it desire to entertain be palpable throughout and but it never rise above predictability . what a waste and dennehy say at the end . i couldn not agree more .