Harrison Ford Movie Review: **^ Witness (1985)

 This movie is rated "R" and like most movies of this ilk left me with a bad feeling at the end.  Too much vioence and using the F word does that to me.  The actors do a good job, Harrison Ford as Book and Kelly McGillis as Rachel.  Rachel is a widow who travels through Philadelphia with her son.  Her son witnesses a murder at the train station.  At the police station he identifies a police officer from narcotics as the killer.  When Book reports this to his boss, that officer comes for Book.  Book flees with Rachel and the boy, Samuel (Lukas Haas) to Amish country, the home of her father (Jan Rubes) where he hides, and recovers from a bullet wound.  After recovering Bok gives himself away when he hits a local boy who was teasing the Amish.  Eventually the dirty police come for him, Schaeffer (Josef Sommer), McFee (Daniel Glover) and Fergie (Angus MacInnes).  

This movie is too violent, but it does show the contrast with the peaceful Amish community.  It is a. very good look inside the community which you don't see on a regular basis.  

Movie Review: ***^Silverado

Silverado is a good western, made after westerns were popular.  Because of that it had to be twice as good, and it lived up to its billing.  It stars a quartet of heroes taking on a land baron and his sheriff and deputies.   The quartet are made up of two brothers Emmett (Scott Glen) and Jake (Kevin Costner), a drifter with a past, Paden (Kevin Klein) and an African America traveling to join his family, Mal (Danny Glover).  This movie has its share of violence and killing, but also has a few tender moments.  The brothers are visiting their sister to say goodbye before they try their luck in California.  While there old feuds, as well as their getting in the middle of a land war.  Mal's father is killed by the same land war, while Paden is hired by the side perpetuating the problem.  Sherriff Cobb (Brian Dennehy) perpetuates the negative situation.  Everyone is effected.  Emmett and Jake see their family effected, brother-in-law shot and nephew kidnapped.  As mentioned Mal's father is killed in efforts to run him off his land.  His sister becomes an ally.  Paden sees what is going on, but worries about his friend, Stella (Linda Hunt) who will get hurt if he takes action.  A gambler "Slick" (Jeff Goldblum) befriend's Mel's sister, but is no an ally.
This movie has good action, and it entertains, which is its motive.