YMMV / 3:10 to Yuma (2007)

• Awesome Music: Marco Beltrami's score is one of the finest of 2007. Highlights include "3:10 To Yuma", "One Man Left" and arguably best for last "Bible Study". Well worth a listen to the whole soundtrack.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Charlie Prince seems to have gotten this reaction.
• Evil Is Cool: Ben Wade, so much. You know you've got an awesome bad guy when the hero is Christian Bale as a badass one-legged Civil War veteran and he's still overshadowed by Ben Wade.
• Fridge Brilliance: Wade's gun is said to be cursed to anyone who touches it except him. Tucker takes it from him, and is killed by Wade. The railroad posse take it later, and are in turn killed by Charlie Prince. At the climax scene after Dan's death, Ben's gang pass the gun to him, but only after ever single one of them has touched it. They all die.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Russell Crowe has a reputation as having a Hair-Trigger Temper, following an unfortunate incident with a telephone. Christian Bale gained a similar reputation for an enraged outburst on the set of Terminator Salvation. So, it's like two Hair Trigger Tempers facing off. Especially because Ben is always cool, no matter WHAT.
• Ho Yay:
  • The movie is filled with it — mostly in the form of Wade towards Dan, and Charlie towards Wade (though the latter is practically canon, considering that some of the interviews pretty much confirmed it).
  • Basically everything Will Evans ever does regarding Ben Wade can be read as him having a Precocious Crush. And with minimal effort.
• Magnificent Bastard: Ben Wade is a charismatic bandit leader who starts the film by driving cattle to block an armored car and then rob it. Famed for his brilliance and skillful gambits, Ben is eventually caught thanks to rancher Dan Evans and is sent to be taken to a train to be sent to Yuma prison with his former gang pursuing. Ben shows himself to be a slippery prisoner, constantly outwitting his captors and killing the most morally bankrupt of them. When he learns Dan's reasons for trying to get him to the train at the end, Ben even fights to assist in getting himself to the train and after Dan is mortally wounded, steps on board of his own free will, cementing Dan as a legend. Ben also reveals to Dan that he's been to Yuma prison twice-and escaped twice (which he and Dan both laugh over), and the film ends with him clearly planning his escape once again.
• Tear Jerker: Dan Evans has just had a Moment of Awesome when he alone escorts notorious criminal Ben Wade to the train leading to Yuma Prison, dodging several attacks by Wade's men along the way. Just when he's about to deliver Wade to the train, he is shot and mortally wounded by Wade's men. After Wade kills his own men, Evans' son, who had little respect for his old man for most of the film, comes running to his dying father's side, and whimpers "Pa..." as Evans dies.

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