While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
Sometime later, following his recovery, Creighton returns to Omaha, Nebraska and plans the construction of a telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City, Utah. Facing considerable opposition to the line from Confederate soldiers, Indians, and outlaws, Creighton elicits the help of his sister Sue (Virginia Gilmore), foreman Pat Grogan (Minor Watson), and assistant Homer Kettle (Chill Wills).
Looking to put his outlaw past behind him, Shaw arrives at Creighton's Western Union office looking for honest work and is hired as a scout by Grogan who is unaware of his past. Creighton recognizes him among the men and allows him to stay despite his suspicions. Creighton also hires tenderfoot Richard Blake (Robert Young), a Harvard-educated engineer as a favor to Blake's father. Shaw and Blake are both attracted to Sue and vie for her attention, but their romantic rivalry is cut short when construction of the telegraph line starts on July 4, 1861.
After work commences on the line, one of the men is killed apparently by a mysterious band of cattle-rustling Indians. Unconvinced that Indians are to blame, Shaw rides out to investigate and follows the rustlers' trail to the camp of Jack Slade, a former friend and cohort, whose gang committed the killing disguised as Indians—the gang Shaw left following his last bank robbery. Slade reveals that they are working for the Confederacy to disrupt Western Union because they believe the telegraph service will help the Union. Shaw rides away and returns to the line. Not wanting to turn in his former friends, Shaw tells Creighton that a large band of Dakota Indians stole the cattle, and recommends that they simply replace the herd and not risk a fight with the Indians.
Sometime later, a confrontation takes place between men working on the forward line and a band of drunken Indians. When one of the Indians tries to steal some equipment, a nervous Blake shoots him, ignoring Shaw's order to remain calm. After word arrives that the main camp is under attack by other Indians, the Western Union men rush back to help with the defense. At the main camp, Slade's men, who are again disguised as Indians, steal the Western Union horses. The company discover the ruse when one of the wounded Indians turns out to be a white man. Forced to buy back their stolen horses from Slade, Creighton becomes suspicious of Shaw's involvement, especially when he admits to knowing the gang.
Soon the U.S. Army arrives and announces the Indians have now refused to allow the telegraph lines to go through their territory in response to Blake's shooting of the drunken Indian. Creighton, Shaw, and Blake ride out to convince Chief Spotted Horse to allow them to build the line through Indian territory, even though the man Blake wounded was Spotted Horse's son. Creighton is finally able to persuade the Indians to allow them passage, and work continues until the company approaches Salt Lake City.
Sometime later, Shaw receives word that Jack Slade wants to meet with him. On the way to see Slade, Shaw is captured and bound by Slade's men. Slade says his group is going to burn down the Western Union camp and they don't want Shaw to interfere. After Slade and his men ride off, Shaw escapes from his ropes but arrives back too late to prevent the fire. He helps rescue some of the Western Union men from the flames and burns his hands in the process.
After the fire, Creighton confronts Shaw for an explanation, but Shaw does not reveal what he knows and is fired by Creighton. As Shaw leaves the camp, he tells Blake that Slade is actually Shaw's brother and that he, Shaw, will find Slade's gang and stop them from interfering with the telegraph project. Shaw rides off and finds Slade and his men in a nearby town. At the barber shop, Shaw confronts his brother, whose gun is concealed under the barber's sheet. Slade shoots Shaw through the sheet. Shaw fights back in spite of his wound, killing some of the gang members, and then dies. Blake arrives and continues the fight with Slade who dies from his wounds. Soon after, the Western Union line is completed and the workers celebrate. When Sue laments the absence of Shaw, Creighton tells her that Shaw can hear them.
无论是人物动机还是剧情逻辑 都给我看得满头问号？？？全片最崩溃的肯定是陈法拉….居然被说 这儿子长得像自己？？？
还不错。看的时候觉得那条龙好贵。刘思慕好多角度像无穷小亮。
特效还行，更像是功夫+神话片而不是科幻片，故事有点单调。
这片子的主要问题在于没什么趣味性，也毫无悬念
抛开电影制作本身，更值得思考的问题是，这部本身拿来‘舔’亚裔华人的《尚气》主创明明去找梁朝伟去做反派，就说明他们不是没有该有的审美，而是为了让‘尚气’这样一个亚裔超级英雄男主角变得‘安全’。
动作设计不错，梁朝伟也够范儿。但每一场文戏都显得那么廉价敷衍。演员确实是选错了，没有一点超级英雄的气质。一些关键情节的逻辑转折也是不痛不痒，本金斯利就为了给钢铁侠3拨乱反正，强行安排一堆无聊的戏份，最后连个交代也没有。中英文切换看似很自然，实际存在许多模糊的表述，比如桃源里的人（杨紫琼陈法拉）为什么就会说英语了？到头来杨还是普通话最烂的那一个。
某些人因为对白里时不时参杂蹩脚中文而对制作方感激的要命，因为曾经侵略过西方的东方反派目的不是毁灭世界把片子吹捧成舔华，因为有人说选角不符合商业片标准把徐峥和葛优的长相说成是乳华？？？？？
像真人版功夫熊猫，还是三部融合在一起的功夫熊猫。配乐出色打戏扎实，英语普通话交错也有点fresh off the boat的搭配感。如果这都是乳化那建议好莱坞可以放弃拍任何有关中国的电影，如果大陆电影院上映那一定会去影院再支持。
比起国产影视剧里夸张的动作设计，特别注意了片中的动作，按人体运动规律都是可以实现的；自然光，没有磨皮效果，人物显得非常真，也更有魅力；塔落设定仿若桃花源记，兽类取材山海经，一些仙侠元素，不缥缈虚无，皆被赋予了现实感。所以，我觉得好看呀！以至于看的时候我非常想念欧美中国餐馆里不多加酱油、香精的“宫保鸡丁”。不过，它肯定是主动做了妥协，满大人这个反派应该是被削去很多该有的交待，以至于故事许多动机变得生硬了。
和黑豹的gang/community culture类似，漫威拍亚裔超级英雄就全都是family business，可谓是兼顾了身份政治的糖与毒药。对香港荷里活功夫片以及李小龙（be water）的回顾更多是一种对亚裔文化黄金期的怀旧，任何从大陆中心的角度去解读“中华”文化的尝试都很危险。但经过重新包装后，过去曾赋权过少数族群的进步文化符号又变成了一种新的枷锁—如同十环=父权的意向一样紧紧禁锢住了新的文化生成的可能性。
有人说情节老套。拜托，得有情节才能说这种话吧？
漫威自以为掌握了中国票房的财富密码：美式傻瓜故事+好莱坞大制作+中国元素堆砌，音乐都刻意选了华人知名度高的歌，但他们没想到其实很多中国人在意的是男主女主长相符不符合“中国审美”😂
好像进了一家号称融合菜的餐厅，什么元素都给你来一点，乱七八糟都给你炒在一起，还觉得挺得意的。也别管这里的服务员为什么一会中文一会英语，一会穿现代衣服一会穿古装，这就是fusion！
好看！尚气要加入New Avengers？！好期待。好久不见陈法拉，好好看啊，真的希望给她多一些戏份。
打的很爽，特别是前半段有点成龙港片的味道。中国元素多到怀疑这是不是漫威电影。看的很过瘾，期待尚气和奇异博士的碰撞。
三点五分吧，看个热闹。完全不懂为何不能引进，大红灯笼，小白龙，竹林，杨紫琼，也许更适合春节档。
最近看的两部幼稚园电影之一，跟《沙丘》比，故事打平，特效惨败，胜在奇形怪状的拆尼斯原生家庭、帝江太岁和大西几。不好意思tony梁，我现在喜欢郭京飞的表演风格了。
能看出电影还是想表达出一点诚意的，一半的台词都是普通话，就是香港演员的普通话都比较一般哈哈。其实对男女主都没什么偏见，就是有点跳戏，多希望梁朝伟把simu打倒...就感觉simu演技也一般，颜值也一般...不知道咋选的，so, did America make u soft?
铁线拳、桃花源，故事内核陈腐无比，够请寻宝节目断代了，断一断是民国还是清晚，编剧是移民潮的遗老遗少，还是美国人对中国的刻板印象不容打破，虽然中文对白篇幅长，说的仍是侯老先生给模仿过的国语，这还是一部有代表性的美国电影。awkwafina的那种脸型才是木兰形象的原型。
在整个漫威系列里面，属于中等水平的作品，比上不足，比下有余#弘扬一个国家的自信心不是靠什么厉害了我的wolf，天书奇谭，大闹天宫，活着，霸王别姬都比那些鸡血无脑片强一百倍#
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