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Russell Crowe’s Most Intense Western Officially Rides Onto Prime Video

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2026 has been a busy year for Russell Crowe, though none of his newer movies have gained the same traction at the box office or on streaming as some of his older hits. Crowe has already starred in a pair of movies this year — he began 2026 by starring as an MMA coach in Beast, the action thriller that’s now streaming on Starz after grossing only a few million at the box office. His next action movie, The Get Out, also failed to gain any box office traction, and the film is now available to purchase on VOD platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV. Crowe will return to the world of blockbuster filmmaking with the new Highlander reboot co-starring Henry Cavill. The film hails from long-time John Wick director Chad Stahelski, but it’s still without an official release date.

While most movie fans would agree that the pinnacle of Crowe’s career came in the late ’90s and early 2000s when he was nominated for three Oscars in a row, he continued this success into the late 2010s with other notable hits like 3:10 to Yuma. Crowe stars alongside Christian Bale and Ben Foster in the 2007 Western, which is a remake of the 1957 Western starring Glen Ford and Van Heflin. 3:10 to Yuma came into theaters carrying a $55 million budget, meaning it needed over $100 million to break even, but it left theaters with a cumulative total of only $70 million at the global box office. Nearly 20 years after its theatrical premiere, 3:10 to Yuma fans can rewatch the film via the Howdy extension on Prime Video, which can be added to a standard subscription for only a few dollars.













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Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz
Which Action Hero Would Be
Your Perfect Partner?

Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
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Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.

🎖️Rambo

🍸James Bond

🏺Indiana Jones

🔧John McClane

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🎭Ethan Hunt

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01

You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner?
The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.





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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel?
How you get there is half the mission.





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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do?
This is when you find out what someone is really made of.





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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest?
Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.





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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission?
Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.





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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them?
The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.





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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do?
Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.





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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace?
A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.





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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with?
No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.





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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now?
The last question is the most honest one.





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Your Partner Has Been Assigned
Your Perfect Partner Is…

Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.

Rambo

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Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.

James Bond

Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

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Indiana Jones

Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.

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John McClane

Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

Ethan Hunt

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Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

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What Is ‘3:10 to Yuma’ About?

The official synopsis for Russell Crowe’s 3:10 to Yuma, which holds scores of 89% from critics and 86% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows: “Outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) terrorizes 1800s Arizona, especially the Southern Railroad, until he is finally captured. Wade must be brought to trial, so Dan Evans (Christian Bale), the owner of a drought-stricken ranch, volunteers to escort him to the train. Along the trail, a grudging respect forms between the men, but danger looms at every turn, and the criminal’s men are in pursuit.” The film was written by Halsted Welles, Michael Brandt, and Derek Haas and directed by James Mangold. It’s the perfect mash-up of Sicario and Unforgiven for fans who love a classic revenge story set against the backdrop of a dusty Western.

Check out 3:10 to Yuma via the Howdy extension on Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Russell Crowe’s future projects.

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Release Date

September 6, 2007

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Runtime

122 minutes

Writers
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Halsted Welles, Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Elmore Leonard

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