Oscar-winning director Kevin Costner ("Dances With Wolves") made "Silverado," his first Western, back in 1985. While it also explored the ethic of scruffy, hard-bitten loners banding together to battle corruption and evil (the antagonist was also named Baxter), it did not have the depth and character development of Craig Storper's screenplay, based on "The Open Range Men" by Lauran Paine. This time, both Spearman and Waite would rather bury their respective pasts than reveal them. It's all about justice coming to terms with the brutality and violence of frontier life. And the fact that the pivotal woman (Annette Bening) is mature, not a bare-midriff twentysomething bopping a guy old enough to be her father, is a refreshing change and admirably realistic for the love interest in this revisionist Western. On the other hand, Costner's pace is plodding, making one grow weary as the story slowly unfolds, despite James Munro's stunning cinematography. On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Open Range" is a simplistic, understated 8, evoking memories of "Shane," "High Noon" and "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral."