American Outlaws (2001)Movies

American Outlaws.American OutlawsTigerland Having just watched and read “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” I thought it time to post on the web my August 2001 review for UPI of the last Jesse James movie, the very different “American Outlaws.” “American Outlaws” – a good-humored retelling of the Jesse James legend – is another of 2001′s long string of movies that fall in between not-so-hot and not-so-bad. It is in the grand tradition of the cowboy Western. In other words, “American Outlaws” is completely unoriginal, but at least it steals from good films like “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” After defeating more heavily armed Union bluecoats in a final skirmish of the Civil War, Quantrill’s...