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Broken Horses is a 2015 American mystery thriller film directed, produced and written by Vidhu Vinod Chopra alongside Abhijat Joshi (who also served as the writer), the film is a remake of Vidhu Vinod Chopra's film Parinda, thus making it the first American film to be a remake of an Indian film, the film follows a musician who reunites with his brother after eight years later, not knowing that he works for a local gangster.

Plot
After leaving town following the death of his father, young music prodigy, Jacob Heckum (Anton Yelchin), returns to his desolate hometown only to discover that Buddy (Chris Marquette), the child-like brother he left behind now works for a drug gang. The gang’s ruthless leader (Vincent D’Onofrio) has twisted his simple mind and manipulated him into a killer, a surrogate son who blindly does as he is told. Jacob is drowned in guilt for having abandoned his brother and realizes the only way to save him from his new fraternity is to join them.

Why It's Broken

 * 1) The film is extremely unfaithful to the original source material, despite having the exact same team as the original film, for example, due to cultural, many of the song sequences are removed, rather than making an English cover and releasing them as a soundtrack for the film instead.
 * 2) Compared to the original film, the length is quite short, as the movie runs for 106 minutes, whereas the original film's length runs for 155 minutes, meaning that 49 minutes of the original were removed or replaced with shorter scenes, although again, this is due to cultural differences.
 * 3) Bland acting, especially from Vincent D'Onofrio as the main protagonist, Julius Hench, who comes across as awkward compared to Jackie Shroff's performance as Kishan Choudhary in the original film.
 * 4) While it's understandable since it's Vinod Chopra's first non-Indian film, the dialogue feels like it was scripted mainly from Google Translate, this is sad because Chopra's eariler film, 3 Idiots had way better english dialogue and were more understandable to read.
 * 5) Lackluster direction from Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who directed much better films such as the original film Parinda, Eklavya: The Royal Guard and even the controversial Shikara.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) John Debney's score is really good, as it manages to capture the original film's spirit.
 * 2) Compared to 3 Idiotas, at least this film tried to be faithful to the original film as it had the original team involved.

Reception
Unlike Parinda, which was acclaimed by critics and audiences, this film was panned for being unfaithful to the original and the atrocious script, which was seen as being "written from Google Translate", the film has a "rotten" score of 25 %on Rotten Tomatoes, on Metacritic, the film has a score of 32 out of 100 critic reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

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Trivia

 * So far, this is the only non-Indian film to be produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra under the Vinod Chopra Films company.